Young People and Social Control

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

   Pages 1-8

3. Problems from the Margins: Young People, Social Control and Injustice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Young People, Marginality and Social Control – What Do We Know so Far?

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 11-27

   3. Schools, Discipline, Racism and Disaffection

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 29-49

   4. Employment, Discrimination and Stigmatising Discourses

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 51-72

   5. Young People, Police Officers and the Barriers to Enacting Procedural Justice

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 73-98

   6. The Judiciary, System Processing and Youth (In)Justice

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 99-123

4. Prospects from the Margins: Border-crossing, Assets Generation and Emancipatory Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Assets-based, Border-crossing Approaches to Facilitate Youth Engagement and Social Connectedness: Scottish and English Illustrations

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 127-147

   3. Emancipatory Approaches to Judicial and Penal Practices: Illustrative Prospects from Scotland

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 149-169

   4. Conclusion: The Future for Young People and Social Control – Learning from the Problems and Prospects

      • Ross Deuchar, Kalwant Bhopal

      Pages 171-178

5. Back Matter

   Pages 179-183

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This book explores young people’s experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK. In particular, the book focuses on disadvantaged young people’s experiences in education, in the labour market, with police and within the criminal justice system. It draws upon insights gathered by the authors in Scotland and England via in-depth interviews with, and observation of, young people in multiple settings and the barriers they come across in terms of justice, equity and inclusion. 


Deuchar and Bhopal present a range of creative and engaging case studies that illustrate where barriers have been broken down between young people and the agents of social control and elucidate upon how a sense of justice and inclusion has emerged. With its wide-ranging, multi-perspective approach, this study will be essential reading for scholars and students of sociology, criminology and youth studies, as well as holding appeal for policy-makers and practitioners.

• Wacquant
• England
• Scotland
• Ethnic Minority
• Youth
• Social Deprivation
• Education
• Prison
• Class
• Criminology
• Criminal Justice System
• Incarceration
• Prison
• Social Justice
• Welfare state
• Equity
• Baumann
• Foucault
• policing
• ethnicity, class, gender and crime

“Young People and Social Control significantly deepens our understanding of the ‘youth condition’, not least because it is uniquely grounded in an astute exploration of the voices and experiences of the marginalised young. It is a standout text, not only for its fresh insights into an increasingly racialized ‘deficit discourse,’ but also for its more positive vision of how barriers between young people and agents of social control might begin to be broken down.” (John Muncie, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, The Open University)

“In this important new work, Deuchar and Bhopal seek to reverse the cycle of moral panic and reactionary policymaking. They give authentic voice to marginalised young people’s concerns and fears regarding stigmatisation across a series of key life domains including schools and employment, but primarily the systems of criminal justice and crime control that are so closely associated with them.” (Shadd Maruna, University of Manchester, UK)

• School of Education, University of the West of Scotland, KA8 0SX, United Kingdom

  Ross Deuchar

• School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Kalwant Bhopal

Ross Deuchar is Assistant Dean (Research, Enterprise and International) in the School of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Crime, Policing and Social Justice within the University of the West of Scotland.  


Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice in the Centre for Research in Race and Education, University of Birmingham, UK.

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