List of Tables and Figures; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Youth Crime: Representations, Discourses and Data; 2 Histories of Youth Crime: The Deprived and the Depraved; 3 Explaining Youth Crime I: Positivist Criminologies; 4 Explaining Youth Crime II: Radical and Realist Criminologies; 5 Cultural Studies and Cultural Criminology: Youth Cultures, Gangs and Subcultures; 6 Youth and Social Policy: Control, Regulation and Governance; 7 Youth Justice Strategies: Compromise and Contradiction; Glossary of Key Terms; References; Index.