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Professional Perspectives of Youth Justice Policy Implementation: Contextual and Coalface Challenges
Author(s) -
CASE STEPHEN,
DREW JOHN,
HAMPSON KATHY,
JONES GARETH,
KENNEDY DUSTY
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the howard journal of crime and justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2059-1101
pISSN - 2059-1098
DOI - 10.1111/hojo.12366
Subject(s) - clarity , economic justice , dynamism , contradiction , meaning (existential) , stakeholder , public relations , sociology , perspective (graphical) , political science , epistemology , law , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , artificial intelligence
This article offers a multilayered analysis of the subjective perspectives and experiences of key youth justice stakeholders; exploring the inherent dynamism, contradiction, non‐linearity, and contentiousness of youth justice policy implementation. We interrogate how professionals make sense and meaning of policy in the real world and how professional perspectives drive and shape their contributions to policy implementation nationally and locally. Contemporaneously, these analyses enable us to critically examine the caricatures, stereotypes, and assumptions that can (mis)inform common constructions, representations, and understandings of youth justice policy trajectories, including those relating to contextual stability, conceptual clarity, robust evidence bases, and purported foundations in stakeholder consensus.