Tara Young
Tara Young, Senior Research Fellow
Tara graduated from the University of Bristol with a First Class degree in Sociology and completed a Master's degree in Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She joined the Centre for Social and Evaluation Research as Research Fellow in January 2004 after three years with the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked on a diverse range of projects although her recent work has concentrated on group delinquency. She is currently working on several national and international projects focusing on understanding the extent and nature of gang membership in the UK and a pan-European gang intervention project. Main interests are youth crime and criminal justice, gender, research methodology and restorative justice.
Contact t.young@londonmet.ac.uk
Publications
Books
Newburn, T., & Shiner, M., with Tara Young (2005) Dealing with Disaffection: Young people, mentoring and social inclusion. Willan Publishing.
Book Chapters
Young, T & Hallsworth, S (In press) Young People, Gangs and Street-Based Violence in Barter et al. Children Behaving Badly? Exploring Peer Violence Between Children and Young People.
Peer reviewed articles
Hallsworth, S. & Young, T. (2008) Crime and silence: `Death and life are in the power of the tongue' (Proverbs 18:21) Theoretical Criminology 2008 12: 131-152.
Hallsworth, S. & Young, T., (2008) Gang Talk and Gang Talkers: A Critique, Crime, Media, Culture Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 2008. 175-195
Hallsworth, S. & Young, T (2005) On Gangs and Guns: a critique and a warning. ChildRIGHT, October CR220
Hallsworth, S., & Young, T (2004) Understanding Collective Delinquency. Criminal Justice Matters No.55 Spring, 2004.
Reports
Young, T., Fitzgerald, M., Hallsworth, S., & Joseph, I (2007) Groups, gangs and weapons: A Report for the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales.
Young, T., Hallsworth, S, Jackson, E and Lindsey, J (2006) Crime Displacement in Kings Cross: A report for Camden Community Safety Partnership.
Young, T (2006) Ealing: A Borough Profile: A Crime and Community Safety Report for Ealing Metropolitan Police Service and Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD10). (in house publication)
Hallsworth, S., & Young, T (2005) Urban Collectives: gangs and other groups, Metropolitan Police Service and Government Office for London (in house publication)
Shiner, M., Young, T., Newburn, T., & Groben, S. (2004) Mentoring Disaffected Young People: An Evaluation of Mentoring Plus. Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Forthcoming
Young, T (forthcoming) Girls and gangs - Female gangsterism in the UK?
Conference papers
Young, T. (2008) ‘Life on Road’: Violence and victimisation. 8th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology Edinburgh 2008, 2nd - 5th September
Young, T (2007) ‘Gang talk and Gang Talkers’, Middlesex University
Young, T & Hallsworth, S (2006) ‘Punitive Culture and the Social Uses of the Gang’, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Glasgow.
Young, T and Hallsworth, S (2005) ‘Silence in an Ecology of Fear’ The International Cultural Criminology Conference, London
Young, T (2005) ‘Girls and the Gang’, British Society Criminology Annual Conference, Leeds.
Young, T. & Hallsworth, S (2005) ‘Punitive Culture and the Social Uses of the Gang’ Eurogang Network Annual Conference, Onnati, Spain.
Hallsworth, S & Young, T (2005) ‘Knife Use and Gang Culture in the UK: Reflections on the Evidence’, Infolog Conference, London.
Hallsworth, S & Young, T (2004) ‘Group Delinquency in the UK: Provisional findings’ Eurogang Network Conference, Albany, USA
Young, T & Groben, S. (2003) ‘Tales of Forty Mentors: an insider view of the mentoring relationship’ Youth Justice Board, International Mentoring Conference, London.
Shiner, M., Young, T., & Groben, S. (2002) ‘A Marriage Made in Heaven: Psychosocial approaches to working with young offenders’ British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Keele University
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