Professor Roger Smith's Outputs (4)

The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice (2020)
Journal Article
Case, S., & Smith, R. (2021). The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 45(4), 391-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2020.1821728

This article challenges contemporary analyses of the nature of youth justice in England and Wales as partial and restricted in theoretical and conceptual terms. A life course perspective is adopted to examine the trajectory of youth justice as a dyna... Read More about The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice.

Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody (2020)
Journal Article
Shenton, F., & Smith, R. (2021). Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody. Children & Society, 35(1), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12410

This article reports on a study of children's experiences of being physically restrained by staff in a range of custodial settings. The research was carried out in collaboration with a team of young researchers, and generated rich and insightful acco... Read More about Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody.

Children and Crime: In the Moment (2020)
Journal Article
Haines, K., Case, S., Smith, R., Joe Laidler, K., Hughes, N., Webster, C., Goddard, T., Deakin, J., Johns, D., Richards, K., & Gray, P. (2021). Children and Crime: In the Moment. Youth Justice, 21(3), 275-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420923762

Traditional approaches to understanding and responding to children and crime are fundamentally based on ‘miniaturised’ adult models. The assumption appears to be that children are adults in the making, essentially just smaller, developing versions of... Read More about Children and Crime: In the Moment.

Diversion, Rights and Social Justice (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2021). Diversion, Rights and Social Justice. Youth Justice, 21(1), 18-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420902845

This article draws on historical understandings and contemporary models of diversion in order to develop a critical framework and agenda for progressive practice. The argument essentially revolves around the contention that typically diversionary int... Read More about Diversion, Rights and Social Justice.