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YOUTH, CRIME AND POLICE WORK Youth, Crime and Police Work Maggy Lee Lecturer Department of Sociology University of Essex Youth, Crime and Police Work Maggy Lee Lecturer Department of Sociology University of Essex First published in Great Britain 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills. Basingstoke. Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available fron1 the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-39846-1 ISBN 978-0-230-39021-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230390218 First published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lee. Maggy. Youth. crirne. and police work I Maggy Lee. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Juvenile delinquency-Great Britain-Prevention. 2. Pre-trial intervention-Great Britain. 3. Police services for juveniles -Great Britain. 4. Social work with juvenile delinquents-Great Britain. I. Title. HV9145.A5L44 1997 364.36'0941---dc21 97-26515 CIP © Maggy Lee 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-66670-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction. copy or transn1ission of this publication may be n1ade without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright. Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenhan1 Court Road. London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina] prosecution and civil cJain1s for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and n1ade from fully tnanaged and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 Contents List of Figures Vll List of Tables Vlll Acknowledgements IX Abbreviations X Introduction 1 1 The Policing of Juvenile Delinquency 7 2 Controlling Cautioning Practice and Police Discretion 31 3 Managing Youth Crime through Multi-Agency Partnerships 57 4 Constructing the Case for Caution 75 5 Conflicts in Multi-Agency Liaison 93 6 Receiving Police Cautioning 109 7 Summary and Concluding Remarks 129 Appendix 137 Notes 139 Bibliography 149 Index 169 v Youth, Crime and Police Work Maggy Lee Lecturer Department of Sociology University of Essex List of Figures 1.1 Offenders cautioned for indictable offences as a percentage of offenders found guilty or cautioned, 1961-1981. 27 2.1 Offenders cautioned for indictable offences as a percentage of offenders found guilty or cautioned, by age and sex, 1994. 44 Vll List of Tables 2.1 Persons cautioned for indictable (excluding motoring) offences as a percentage of persons found guilty or cautioned by police force area and sex, 1994 41 A.l Number of multi-agency meetings observed and cases studied 137 A.2 Number of people interviewed 137 vm Acknowledgements Many people have helped me through the process of writing this book. My apologies that so few of them are named individually here, but my thanks to them all. I am grateful to all those in the police force areas, social services, probation services and education welfare services, magistrates, young people and their parents, who agreed to be interviewed and facilitated the fieldwork on which this book is based. Thanks to Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison Morris for super vising the original MPhil and PhD theses, Eugene McLaughlin for his criticial insights into policing and encouragement over the last ten years, my old colleagues at ISDD and new ones at Essex University for providing an environment of scholarship. Denis Jones offered valuable criticism of an earlier version of the book but, as always, should not be blamed for my errors. Thanks too to Chris Ellis for helping me put my work in perspective. The source of Figures 1.1 and 2.1 and Table 2.1 is Crown copyright. The author and publisher would also like to thank the University of Wales Press (Cardiff) for permission to repro duce in Chapter 6 material which appeared in an earlier form in L. Noaks, M. Levi and M. Maguire (eds) Contemporary Issues in Criminology (1995). lX
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