Hard Lessons: Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Richard Hil is Senior Lecturer in Human Services at the Southern Cross University’s Coffs Harbour campus, in northern New South Wales. Richard has published in areas of Youth Justice, Child and Family Welfare and Criminology. His current research interests include an empirical study of the application and use of the concept of ’risk’ in youth justice and a study of institutional abuses of children and young people in Queensland. Gordon Tait is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove campus, Brisbane. His research interests include Youth, Sexuality, Criminal Justice and Education ... and Humour.