Stephen Case
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Case |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Case |
| SIGNATURE | CASE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7227-3188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Child First Collaboration: Reconceptualising the Child‐Adult Relationship in Youth Justice Contexts
Collaboration with justice‐involved children is a central tenet of the ‘Child First’ guiding principle for the Youth Justice System of England and Wales. However, exactly what constitutes ‘collaboration’ is moot in policy, practice and research with vulnerable children in contact with support systems, and currently neglected within youth justice contexts. As we discuss, children's collaboration is typically modelled and operationalised in adult‐c…
Considering youth justice interventions in context for more effective prevention: Realism over reductionism
Reviews of youth justice intervention effectiveness prioritise hierarchies of evidence that obscure how contextual features shape the ‘mechanisms’ of change in preventative interventions. This article critiques this current evidence-based approach to youth justice interventions and its reliance on reoffending reduction as a measure of effectiveness. Community-based prevention programmes have been central to youth justice, since the late 20th cent…
Challenging Notions of Children’s “Participation” in the Youth Justice System: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12
A child’s right to participate in decision making is seminally proclaimed in Article 12, uncrc . Yet, it is often the case that the rhetoric associated with children’s “participation rights” does not reflect practice. Especially in the case of the youth justice system, significant challenges exist concerning both notions of the right to participate and how it translates into and influences what should be appropriate interventions for young people…
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System
This key text brings together experts in youth justice to develop an informed analysis of the ‘Child First’ model of positive youth justice
YOT Talk: Examining the communicative influences on children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes
This article presents an evidence-based analysis of the communicative influences on children’s engagement in the Youth Justice System of England and Wales. The multidisciplinary criminologist–linguist ‘YOT Talk’ project utilized Svalberg’s (2009) dimensions of engagement (cognitive, affective, social; augmented by behavioural) to explore the enablers of, and barriers to, children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes. A tripartite …
Child First and the end of ‘bifurcation’ in youth justice
Purpose This study aims to critically evaluate the trajectory of the “Child First” guiding principle for youth justice in England and Wales, which challenges adult-centric constructions of children (when they offend) as “threatening” and asserts a range of theoretical and principled assumptions about the nature of childhood and children’s evolving capacity. Design/methodology/approach Focussing on how Child First seeks to transcend the socio-hist…
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second
This topical book outlines a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS), which promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusionary, engaging, promotional practice and legitimate partnership between children and adults to serve as a blueprint for other local authorities and countries
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System
Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction
This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and explanations of youth offending and examines the responses to it that constitute youth justice. Bringing together theory, policy and practice, this book provides a balanced exposition of contemporary…
Children’s education in secure custodial settings: Towards a global understanding of effective policy and practice
The life course of delinquency: Reflections on the Meaning of Trajectories, Transitions and Turning Points in Youth Justice
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 dynamic artefact, constantly shaped by recurring, reconstructed and r/evolving contextual, thematic and stakeholder influences. A critical and thematic review of academic, government, policy and media lit…
The punitive transition in youth justice: Reconstructing the child as offender
The transition from ‘child’ to ‘offender’ status can be fast‐tracked when offending is formally recognised through formal disposal, with children treated increasing punitively as they progress through the Youth Justice System. The status and ‘offenderising’ transitions of children who offend is socio‐historically contingent, not only on their behaviour, but on political, socio‐economic, societal, systemic and demography. We support this perspecti…
Child first, offender second – A progressive model for education in custody
Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction
This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and explanations of youth offending and examines the responses to it that constitute youth justice. Bringing together theory and practice, this book provides a balanced exposition of contemporary youth j…
Transatlantic ‘Positive Youth Justice’: A distinctive new model for responding to offending by children
A model of ‘positive youth justice’ has been developed on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the hegemonic punitivity and neo-correctionalism of contemporary actuarial risk-based approaches and the conceptually-restricted rights-based movement of child-friendly justice. This paper examines the origins, main features, guiding principles and underpinning evidence bases of the different versions of positive youth justice developed in England/Wa…
Criminology
Criminology is a core, introductory textbook on the field of crime and criminology. It starts by looking at what crime is and the theories that try to explain it. It then considers society's response to crime. It shows how to carry out independent research and plan first steps in a career. The critical, applied approach is emphasized through some of the many features that are integrated throughout the book. These include conversations with authen…
Children First, Offenders Second: The Centrality of Engagement in Positive Youth Justice
Contemporary E uropean youth justice practice, notably in E ngland and W ales, fosters retrospective, risk‐focused and reductionist views of children. Enforced, inequitable, prescriptive and adult‐led youth justice relationships adulterise children and responsibilise them fully for their offending behaviour, disengaging them from constructive youth justice interventions. This article sets out and evidences an alternative model of youth justice: C…
The Swansea Bureau: A model of diversion from the Youth Justice System
A tale of two cities: Young people, anti-social behaviour and localised public opinion
Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice
Introduction: Risk Factor Research 1. Examining the Unresolved Methodological Paradoxes of Risk Factor Research 2. The Origins and Development of Risk Factor Research 3. Longitudinal Risk Factor Research in England and Wales - Achievements, Limitations and Potential 4. Cross-sectional Risk Factor Research in England and Wales - Achievements, limitations and Potential 5. Hunting for the Universal Risk Factor 6. Risk Assessment in the Youth Justice…
Reconfiguring and realigning the assessment feedback processes for an undergraduate criminology degree
A reconfigured and realigned system of assessment feedback was implemented with undergraduates taking criminology modules at Swansea University. The reformulated system integrated explicit engagement with assessment criteria in feedback given on an electronic template form with the use of a statement bank and the offer of follow‐up, feedback consolidation meetings with the tutor. Student module evaluation feedback questionnaires demonstrated a po…
Individual Differences in Public Opinion about Youth Crime and Justice in Swansea
A public opinion survey of youth crime and justice was conducted with a sample of 496 people in Swansea. Gender and age differences in estimations of youth crime were compared to official and self‐reported youth offending statistics nationally and locally. Attitudes to sentencing and preventative measures were evaluated with reference to Swansea's positive, inclusionary approach to young people. Findings indicate that the Swansea public overestim…
Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational Identity and Cultural Change
Anna Souhami has provided a most welcome addition to the existing body of vigorous and compelling debate around the impact of New Labour's reforms of the Youth Justice System. Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational Identity and Cultural Change reports an ethnographic study of the transformation of a social services youth justice team into a multi-agency youth offending team (known as the ‘Midlands YOT’) over a 14-month period from 1999–2000. Dr…
Promoting Prevention: Evaluating a Multi‐agency Initiative of Youth Consultation and Crime Prevention in Swansea
The multi‐agency, multiple intervention Promoting Prevention initiative to prevent youth offending in Swansea was evaluated with a computer‐based interactive questionnaire with 580 young people (aged 11–18). Results indicate that multiple exposure to risk factors within the main domains of the young person's life (for example, family, school) significantly increases the likelihood that a young person will become involved in problem behaviours. In…
Learning to Partner, Disabling Conflict: Early indications of an improving relationship between parents and professionals with regard to service provision for children with learning disabilities
A questionnaire was constructed to analyse whether the high degree of parental dissatisfaction with disability professionals found in previous studies is indicative of the modern parent-professional relationship with regards to service provision for learning disabled children. Consequently, previous levels of dissatisfaction are slowly being undermined, although professional service remains reactive, particularly in terms of counselling and advic…
Refocusing on the Parent: What are the social issues of concern for parents of disabled children
A questionnaire was constructed to analyse the efficacy of service provision for disabled children from the parents' perspective, as well as the needs and issues pertinent to parents (Middleton, 1998, 1992). The familial and personal data identified deep parental concerns and fears regarding professional attitudes and dominance, neglect of parental knowledge, lack of counselling and therapy, coping in the future, support, and the child's aestheti…
Learning to Partner, Disabling Conflict: Early indications of an improving relationship between parents and professionals with regard to service provision for children with learning disabilities
A questionnaire was constructed to analyse whether the high degree of parental dissatisfaction with disability professionals found in previous studies is indicative of the modern parent-professional relationship with regards to service provision for learning disabled children. Consequently, previous levels of dissatisfaction are slowly being undermined, although professional service remains reactive, particularly in terms of counselling and advic…
Child first, offender second – A progressive model for education in custody
Challenging Notions of Children’s “Participation” in the Youth Justice System: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12
A child’s right to participate in decision making is seminally proclaimed in Article 12, uncrc . Yet, it is often the case that the rhetoric associated with children’s “participation rights” does not reflect practice. Especially in the case of the youth justice system, significant challenges exist concerning both notions of the right to participate and how it translates into and influences what should be appropriate interventions for young people…
Transatlantic ‘Positive Youth Justice’: A distinctive new model for responding to offending by children
A model of ‘positive youth justice’ has been developed on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the hegemonic punitivity and neo-correctionalism of contemporary actuarial risk-based approaches and the conceptually-restricted rights-based movement of child-friendly justice. This paper examines the origins, main features, guiding principles and underpinning evidence bases of the different versions of positive youth justice developed in England/Wa…
A tale of two cities: Young people, anti-social behaviour and localised public opinion
The Swansea Bureau: A model of diversion from the Youth Justice System
An Introductory Sociology. Kimball Young
Great Thinkers: The Quest of Life for Its Meaning . Trumbull G. Duvall
Refocusing on the Parent: What are the social issues of concern for parents of disabled children
A questionnaire was constructed to analyse the efficacy of service provision for disabled children from the parents' perspective, as well as the needs and issues pertinent to parents (Middleton, 1998, 1992). The familial and personal data identified deep parental concerns and fears regarding professional attitudes and dominance, neglect of parental knowledge, lack of counselling and therapy, coping in the future, support, and the child's aestheti…
Learning to Partner, Disabling Conflict: Early indications of an improving relationship between parents and professionals with regard to service provision for children with learning disabilities
A questionnaire was constructed to analyse whether the high degree of parental dissatisfaction with disability professionals found in previous studies is indicative of the modern parent-professional relationship with regards to service provision for learning disabled children. Consequently, previous levels of dissatisfaction are slowly being undermined, although professional service remains reactive, particularly in terms of counselling and advic…
Promoting Prevention: Evaluating a Multi‐agency Initiative of Youth Consultation and Crime Prevention in Swansea
The multi‐agency, multiple intervention Promoting Prevention initiative to prevent youth offending in Swansea was evaluated with a computer‐based interactive questionnaire with 580 young people (aged 11–18). Results indicate that multiple exposure to risk factors within the main domains of the young person's life (for example, family, school) significantly increases the likelihood that a young person will become involved in problem behaviours. In…
Reconfiguring and realigning the assessment feedback processes for an undergraduate criminology degree
A reconfigured and realigned system of assessment feedback was implemented with undergraduates taking criminology modules at Swansea University. The reformulated system integrated explicit engagement with assessment criteria in feedback given on an electronic template form with the use of a statement bank and the offer of follow‐up, feedback consolidation meetings with the tutor. Student module evaluation feedback questionnaires demonstrated a po…
Individual Differences in Public Opinion about Youth Crime and Justice in Swansea
A public opinion survey of youth crime and justice was conducted with a sample of 496 people in Swansea. Gender and age differences in estimations of youth crime were compared to official and self‐reported youth offending statistics nationally and locally. Attitudes to sentencing and preventative measures were evaluated with reference to Swansea's positive, inclusionary approach to young people. Findings indicate that the Swansea public overestim…
Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational Identity and Cultural Change
Anna Souhami has provided a most welcome addition to the existing body of vigorous and compelling debate around the impact of New Labour's reforms of the Youth Justice System. Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational Identity and Cultural Change reports an ethnographic study of the transformation of a social services youth justice team into a multi-agency youth offending team (known as the ‘Midlands YOT’) over a 14-month period from 1999–2000. Dr…
Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice
Introduction: Risk Factor Research 1. Examining the Unresolved Methodological Paradoxes of Risk Factor Research 2. The Origins and Development of Risk Factor Research 3. Longitudinal Risk Factor Research in England and Wales - Achievements, Limitations and Potential 4. Cross-sectional Risk Factor Research in England and Wales - Achievements, limitations and Potential 5. Hunting for the Universal Risk Factor 6. Risk Assessment in the Youth Justice…
A tale of two cities: Young people, anti-social behaviour and localised public opinion
The Swansea Bureau: A model of diversion from the Youth Justice System
Children First, Offenders Second: The Centrality of Engagement in Positive Youth Justice
Contemporary E uropean youth justice practice, notably in E ngland and W ales, fosters retrospective, risk‐focused and reductionist views of children. Enforced, inequitable, prescriptive and adult‐led youth justice relationships adulterise children and responsibilise them fully for their offending behaviour, disengaging them from constructive youth justice interventions. This article sets out and evidences an alternative model of youth justice: C…
Criminology
Criminology is a core, introductory textbook on the field of crime and criminology. It starts by looking at what crime is and the theories that try to explain it. It then considers society's response to crime. It shows how to carry out independent research and plan first steps in a career. The critical, applied approach is emphasized through some of the many features that are integrated throughout the book. These include conversations with authen…
Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction
This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and explanations of youth offending and examines the responses to it that constitute youth justice. Bringing together theory and practice, this book provides a balanced exposition of contemporary youth j…
Transatlantic ‘Positive Youth Justice’: A distinctive new model for responding to offending by children
A model of ‘positive youth justice’ has been developed on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the hegemonic punitivity and neo-correctionalism of contemporary actuarial risk-based approaches and the conceptually-restricted rights-based movement of child-friendly justice. This paper examines the origins, main features, guiding principles and underpinning evidence bases of the different versions of positive youth justice developed in England/Wa…
The punitive transition in youth justice: Reconstructing the child as offender
The transition from ‘child’ to ‘offender’ status can be fast‐tracked when offending is formally recognised through formal disposal, with children treated increasing punitively as they progress through the Youth Justice System. The status and ‘offenderising’ transitions of children who offend is socio‐historically contingent, not only on their behaviour, but on political, socio‐economic, societal, systemic and demography. We support this perspecti…
Child first, offender second – A progressive model for education in custody
Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction
This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and explanations of youth offending and examines the responses to it that constitute youth justice. Bringing together theory, policy and practice, this book provides a balanced exposition of contemporary…
Children’s education in secure custodial settings: Towards a global understanding of effective policy and practice
The life course of delinquency: Reflections on the Meaning of Trajectories, Transitions and Turning Points in Youth Justice
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 dynamic artefact, constantly shaped by recurring, reconstructed and r/evolving contextual, thematic and stakeholder influences. A critical and thematic review of academic, government, policy and media lit…
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second
This topical book outlines a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS), which promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusionary, engaging, promotional practice and legitimate partnership between children and adults to serve as a blueprint for other local authorities and countries
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System
This key text brings together experts in youth justice to develop an informed analysis of the ‘Child First’ model of positive youth justice
YOT Talk: Examining the communicative influences on children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes
This article presents an evidence-based analysis of the communicative influences on children’s engagement in the Youth Justice System of England and Wales. The multidisciplinary criminologist–linguist ‘YOT Talk’ project utilized Svalberg’s (2009) dimensions of engagement (cognitive, affective, social; augmented by behavioural) to explore the enablers of, and barriers to, children’s engagement with youth justice assessment processes. A tripartite …
Child First and the end of ‘bifurcation’ in youth justice
Purpose This study aims to critically evaluate the trajectory of the “Child First” guiding principle for youth justice in England and Wales, which challenges adult-centric constructions of children (when they offend) as “threatening” and asserts a range of theoretical and principled assumptions about the nature of childhood and children’s evolving capacity. Design/methodology/approach Focussing on how Child First seeks to transcend the socio-hist…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (17 works) · Economic Justice (17 works) · Criminology (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works)