TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - New Labour and youth justice
JO  - Children and society
A1  - Smith, Deborah
SP  - 226
EP  - 235
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
N2  - The paper discusses the reasons for the large amount of critical commentary that New Labour's reforms of the youth justice system have attracted. It explores the extent to which there is something 'new' about these reforms, suggesting that there are important differences when New Labour's approach is compared with its predecessor's. It then discusses the main lines of critical commentary on the reforms, concluding that much of it is over-abstract and insufficiently empirically informed. The paper concludes with some ambiguous evidence on what the impact of the reforms has actually been.<p /> 
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SN  - 0951-0605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/CHI.761
ID  - ref1
ER  -