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Book Review: Scared of the Kids: Curfews, Crime and the Regulation of Young People

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Published date01 December 2003
AuthorJanet Jamieson
Date01 December 2003
DOI10.1177/147322540300300311
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Book Reviews
just to make national standards explicit, but also to complement statutory frameworks.
This objective is met by providing a context for understanding the nature and purpose
of PSRs that encourages effective and non-discriminatory practice, and takes account
of the young person’s rights and welfare.
Coverage of these issues is by necessity brief, although it is still more detailed, and
arguably illuminating, than similar guides to the key elements of effective practice
recently produced by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB). Nacro’s
explicit welfare and anti-discriminatory imperatives also provide a refreshing
counter-balance to the more managerially oriented material published by the YJB. This
should serve to make the guide even more appealing to practitioners looking for an
easily accessible, and yet comprehensive resource, still flexible enough to be tailored to
the individual challenges faced by local YOTs.
Despite the real risk that its contents could become quickly outdated, a danger its
authors also recognise, this is not just another practice guidance document likely to languish
perpetually in the in-tray. In a period of seemingly ceaseless change, it should provide a
useful touchstone for a range of YOT report-writers, whether newcomers or old hands.
Stuart Waiton, Scared of the Kids: Curfews, Crime and the Regulation of Young
People, Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2001, £9.95 Pb, ISBN 086339 929 0
Reviewed by: Janet Jamieson, Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster
University.
The Child Safety Initiative (CSI) was introduced in 3 areas in Hamilton in October
1997 with the aim to keep children and young people under 16 years off the streets
‘after dark’ without ‘reasonable excuse’. The CSI was justified in terms of children’s
and the community’s safety and positive evaluation findings from the initiative were
utilised to extend the curfew powers in England and Wales under the Criminal Justice
and Police Act 2001. By contrast ‘Scared of the...

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