The focus of this Special Issue is youth justice research, particularly the generation of evidence to inform systemic and informal responses to offending by children and young people.

For this Special Issue, applied and secondary research conducted internationally (Western and non-Western world) over the previous decade outside of (before and beyond) and within youth/juvenile justice systems, which has produced evidence-based recommendations for youth justice policy and practice, will be considered.

The aim of this Special Issue is to engage in a thorough and multi-faceted examination of the scope, diversity, validity, and utility of research conducted to inform empirical understandings of and policy/practice responses to youth/juveniles offending globally and the quality of the methodologies employed and evidence produced by this body of research.

There is no directly relevant existing literature, as a Special Issue of this type has never been attempted before. There have been a few isolated examples of attempts to scrutinise youth justice research more broadly (typically in edited collections), notably including the following:

• “What evidence for youth justice?” by David Smith (in Goldson and Muncie 2015).
• “Research-informed youth justice” by Barry Goldson (in Taylor et al. 2010).
• “Politics and research in youth justice” Jo Phoenix (in Taylor et al. 2010).

However, such piecemeal narratives and polemics have never been gathered into a single publication dedicated to examining youth justice research, its methodologies, and evidence.

Prof. Dr. Stephen Case
Guest Editor

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