《青年研究雜志》是一份國際性學術期刊，致力于從理論和實證的角度理解年輕人的經歷和生活背景。迅速變化的社會經濟環境對年輕人具有重要的影響:創造了新的機會，但不平等和邊緣化現象增加并以新的形式出現。《青年研究雜志》創辦于1998年，是面向青年和青年成人期學者的領先多學科期刊。作為該領域的領先期刊，《青年研究期刊》匯集了世界各地從事不同學科研究的社會科學家。這些學科包括社會學、教育學、社會政策、文化研究、政治學、經濟學、人類學、犯罪學和社會地理學。我們的雜志不是一本關于青少年心理學的雜志，但是我們確實接受一些從批判心理學角度出發的論文。我們發表的論文調查年輕人的生活在一系列的環境中(如教育、家庭、勞動力市場)的眾多研究主題(如文化、身份、政治、公民、消費、休閑、媒體、犯罪等)不愿雜志上發表論文,順便用年輕人為研究樣本,或者重復過時,狹窄或規范性方法理解年輕人的生活。雖然這個范圍不能按時間順序來定義，但該雜志的核心興趣在于十幾歲和二十幾歲的年輕人。我們對所有方法方法持開放態度。除了以經驗為基礎、理論見多識廣的論文外，我們還歡迎主要是概念性的貢獻，尤其是如果它們能增加該領域當代知識分子的辯論的話。《青年研究雜志》發表的論文致力于解決青年政策和實踐問題，但這些論文必須超越方案報告和評價，對國際讀者具有明確的價值。除了分析年輕人不斷變化的情況、經歷和機會外，該雜志還鼓勵發表論文，以批判性的視角看待社會、經濟和政治進程以及制度如何塑造年輕人的意義，以及對年輕人的描述。

Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of young people’s experiences and life contexts. Rapidly changing socio-economic circumstances have important implications for young people: new opportunities have been created but inequality and marginalisation have increased and taken new forms. Launched in 1998, the Journal of Youth Studies has established itself as the leading multidisciplinary journal for academics who are interested in youth and young adulthood.As the leading journal in the field, the Journal of Youth Studies brings together social scientists from all regions of the world and working in a range of disciplines. These include sociology, education, social policy, cultural studies, political science, economics, anthropology, criminology and social geography. Ours is not a journal of adolescent psychology but we do accept papers that take a critical psychological perspective.The papers we publish investigate young people’s lives in a range of contexts (such as education, the family, the labour market) and in respect of numerous research themes (such as sub-culture, identity, politics, citizenship, consumption, leisure, media, crime etc.) The Journal does not wish to publish papers that incidentally have used young people as the research sample or that repeat dated, narrow or normative approaches to understanding young people’s lives. Although the scope cannot be defined chronologically, the core interest of the Journal is on young people in their teens and twenties.We are open to all methodological approaches. As well as empirically based, theoretically informed papers we also welcome contributions that are primarily conceptual, particularly if they add to contemporary intellectual debates in the field. The Journal of Youth Studies publishes papers that grapple with questions of youth policy and practice but these must go beyond programme reports and evaluations and have clear value for an international readership. As well as analyses of the changing situations, experiences and opportunities of young people, the Journal encourages papers that take a critical perspective on the way that social, economic and political processes and institutions shape the meaning of, and narratives about, youth.