Description: Why are more young law breakers imprisoned in Russia and the UK than in any other European country? This book explores the treatment of young offenders in these two very different states and the political and institutional context of their distinctively punitive approach.
Brief description: Mary McAuley is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College, London. She was Fellow in Politics at St Hilda's College Oxford until 1995, with earlier posts at the universities of York and Essex. From 1996 to 2002 she ran the Ford Foundation's Moscow Office. Her books include Soviet Politics 1917 - 1991 (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Russia's Politics of Uncertainty (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Review Quotes:
"McAuley brings a subtle and expert eye to the complexity of the transition periods of post-Soviet criminal justice" --Punishment and Society
"McAuley's book offers a rare glimpse into a world that is carefully protected from the outsider's gaze. The author's thought-provoking portrayal of child custody in Russia is drawn from several sources including her own visits to a dozen or so closed institutions ... few will fail to be drawn in by the author's passion ... Children in Custody adds an engaging inter-cultural dimension to calls for youth justice reform." --Caroline Lanskey, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice