Contents -- The criminalisation of youth and current trends: the sentencing game -- Juvenile justice in Belgium seen through the sanctions looking-glass -- The criminalisation of youth: developments in Canada -- The criminalisation of juveniles andcountervailing trends: youth justice in England and Wales -- Scottish youth justice: convergent pressures and cultural singularities -- 'The punitive turn' - are there any points of resistance? An answer from the Portuguese experience -- The game of sanctions in the Spanish juvenile justice system: The tension between primary and secondary criminalisation -- France: breaking with the European line ofjuvenile justice?: The successive reforms of the ordinance of 2 February 1945 -- Romanian juvenile justice system betweenwelfare values and neo-liberal inflexions -- Slovenia -- Understanding juvenile penal justice in Turkey: An attitude both punitive and lax, expressing a will forsolidarity -- Youth criminal justice in Europe: At the intersection of protective thinking, A neo-liberal turn,and neo-conservative ideology -- Index.