Corporatism: The Third Model of Juvenile Justice

Juvenile justice developments tend to be conceptualized and explained in terms of their accommodation within the respective parameters of the welfare and justice models. Historically, the welfare era in England and Wales reached its peak in the early 1970s. Since then, the justice model has assumed ideological dominance. However, the reality of juvenile justice policies and practices would seem to be more closely in line with a third model, that of corporatism. The paper sets out its form and terms, arguing that it is a more appropriate description of the contemporary Anglo-Welsh juvenile justice system.