Residential Children’s Homes and the Youth Justice System

1. Introduction
Julie Shaw

Part I. Setting the Scene

2. Developments and Experiences in Residential Care
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3. Policy Context of Research
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4. Introducing the Research Study: Theory and Method
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Part II. Research Findings

5. Disempowerment, Responsibility and Difference
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6. Solidarity, Conflict and the Residential Regime
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7. Instability, Homogeneity and Isolation
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8. ‘Policing’, Power and Perceptions
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Part III. Conclusion

9. Key Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice
Julie Shaw

Keywords: Social Sciences, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Work, Social Policy, Social Care