In 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system. The creation of inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) for the delivery of youth justice services were the cornerstone of the new approach. These new YOTs were designed to tackle an 'excuse culture' that was alleged to pervade the youth justice system and aimed to encourage the emergence of a shared culture among youth justice practitioners from different agencies. The transformation of the youth justice system brought about a period of intense disruption for the practitioner.     Read more...      Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Transforming youth justice; Part 1: A Youth Justice Team; 2. Experiences and problems of team membership; 3. Working in youth justice: the 'normal ambiguity' of social work; 4. An unrepresentative representative: being a police officer in a Yot; Part 2: Change and Ambiguity; 5. Joining an established team; 6. Change, resistance and fragmentation; 7. Managing ambiguity and change; Part 3: A Youth Offending Team; 8. A youth offending team; 9. Occupational identity and cultural change; Appendix: Researching a Developing Yot. ReferencesIndex; Back cover

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