Left-Behind Children’s Juvenile Delinquency and Substance Abuse in China: Policy Examination and Analysis

This book constructs the theoretical framework based on a range of prominent social theories to address how juvenile delinquency is socioeconomically constructed. Here the presentation of conceptual details is supported by Chinese literature that rationalises, problematises, and analyses how left-behind children are vulnerable to premature smoking, heavy drinking and drug abuse and. I critically review all the most recent publications to highlight the most updated socioeconomic structure of juvenile delinquency experienced by Chinese left-behind children. In addition, the author summarises and analyses all the most up-to-date policy recommendations and evaluations concerning the mitigation of left-behind children’s juvenile delinquency. The policymaking outputs help inform readers on how Chinese policymakers have specifically been endeavouring to intervene in left-behind children’s delinquent behaviours and what policy directions the corresponding policymakers are trending towards in the future.

Jason Hung is a final-year Ph.D. in Sociology candidate at the University of Cambridge. He worked as a Humane Studies Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies, a former Fellow at Harvard University Asia Centre and a former Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. He is a five-time book author which his published monographs include Indonesian and Philippine Media on China and COVID-19 (Routledge) and The Socially Constructed and Reproduced Youth Delinquency in Southeast Asia: Advancing Positive Youth Involvement in Sustainable Futures (Emerald Publishing).