A Popular Criminology of Youth Justice

<p dir="ltr">Youth crime and justice has always been a key area of study within criminology, but some aspects<br>have not been fully explored in relation young people, such as popular criminology. Previous work<br>looking at youth justice in media has focused on news, and reporting of stories of youth crimes, with<br>a focus on stereotyping and moral panics. However, cultural ideas about young people who commit<br>crimes are created, mediated, and perpetuated within popular media also. This chapter will explore<br>how representations of young people involved in crime have developed within film, and the ways in<br>which this has impacted upon and influenced ideas of youth crime within the public imagination,<br>contributing to policy and practice within youth justice, and what this means for youth justice in<br>future. In doing so, the call for a popular criminology of youth justice and new research is solidified.</p>