A popular criminology of youth justice

Jessica Urwin

Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Youth Criminology, 2025, pp 46-60 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Youth crime and justice has always been a key area of study within criminology, but some aspects have not been fully explored in relation to young people, such as popular criminology. Previous work looking at youth justice in media has focused on news and reporting of stories of youth crimes, with a focus on stereotyping and moral panics. However, cultural ideas about young people who commit crimes are created, mediated and perpetuated within popular media as well. This chapter will explore how representations of young people involved in crime have developed within film, and the ways in which this has impacted and influenced ideas of youth crime within the public imagination, contributing to policy and practice within youth justice, and what this means for youth justice in the future. In doing so, the call for a popular criminology of youth justice and new research is solidified.

Keywords: Media; Popular criminology; Youth justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035300747
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