The political economy of risk and the new governance of youth crime

Punishment and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 443-458

  Gray, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflation of risk and criminogenic need; Employability; Individualization of risk; Responsibilization through cognitive behaviour training; Transformative risk governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349205597     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474509341141     Document Type: Article

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