BOOKS
Authored Books
Bessant, J., 2021, Making-up people: youth, truth and politics, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Making-Up-People-Youth-Truth-and-Politics/Bessant/p/book/9780367276300
Bessant, J., 2018, The great transformation, history for a techno-human future, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Great-Transformation-History-for-a-Techno-Human-Future/Bessant/p/book/9780367876432
Bessant, J., Farthing, R., Watts, R., 2017, The precarious generation: a political economy of young people, Routledge Advances in Sociology Series, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Precarious-Generation-A-Political-Economy-of-Young-People/Bessant-Farthing-Watts/p/book/9781138603226
Bessant, J., 2014, Democracy bytes: new media and new politics and generational change, Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137308269
Watts, R., Bessant, J., and Hil, R., 2008, International criminology: a critical introduction, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/International-Criminology-A-Critical-Introduction/Bessant-Hil-Watts/p/book/9780415431781?_ga=undefined
Bessant, J., and Watts, R., 2007, Sociology Australia, 3rd edition, Allen & Unwin. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003117339/sociology-australia-rob-watts
Bessant, J., Watts, R., Dalton, T., and Smyth, P., 2006, Talking policy: making social policy in Australia, Allen and Unwin. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003117636/talking-policy-rob-watts
Bessant, J., Hil, R., Watts, R., 2005, Discovering risk: social research and policy making, Peter Lang. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273765466_Discovering_Risk_Social_Research_and_Policy_Making
Bessant, J., and Watts, R., 2002, Sociology Australia, 2nd ed, Allen & Unwin. https://www.abebooks.com/9781865086125/Sociology-Australia-Second-Edition-Bessant-1865086126/plp
Bessant, J., and Watts, R., 1999, Sociology Australia, 1st ed, Allen & Unwin. https://www.amazon.ca/Sociology-Australia-Judith-Watts-Bessant/dp/1864487313
Bessant, J., Sercombe, H., and Watts, R., 1998, Youth studies: an Australian perspective, Addison Wesley Longman. https://books.google.de/books/about/Youth_Studies.html?id=DhgfPQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Benjamin, J., Bessant, J., and Watts, R., 1997, Making groups work: rethinking practice, Allen and Unwin. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003116356/making-groups-work-rob-watts
Bessant, J., and Emslie, M., 1997, ‘From bleeding heart to bottom line’: transforming Victoria’s local government youth services, Public Sector Research Centre, University of NSW. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261950803_From_Bleeding_Heart_to_Bottom_Line_Transforming_Victoria's_Local_Government_Youth_Services
Bessant, J., and Bessant, B., 1991, The growth of a profession: nursing in Victoria, 1930s–1980s, La Trobe University Press. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1196150M/The_growth_of_a_profession
Edited Books
Bessant, J., O’Keefe, P., and Watts, R., 2027, Section editors for Asia and Oceania in Encyclopedia of Political Science, Elsevier.
Bessant, J., Collin, P., and O’Keefe, P., eds, 2024, Research handbook for the sociology of youth, Edward Elgar. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803921808/9781803921808.xml
Bessant, J., and Watts R., sub-editors, 2024, ‘Youth Participation’, in J. Wyn, H. Cuervo and H. Cahill (general eds), Childhood and youth studies handbook, Springer.
Devries, M., Bessant, J., and Watts, R., eds, 2021, The rise of the far-right: technologies of recruitment & mobilization, Rowman and Littlefield. https://books.google.de/books/about/Rise_of_the_Far_Right.html?id=jqE5EAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Bessant, J., Mejia Mesinas, A., and Pickard, S., eds, 2021, When students protest: secondary and high schools, Rowman and Littlefield. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/when-students-protest-9781786611765/
Bessant, J., Mejia Mesinas, A., and Pickard, S., eds, 2021, When students protest: universities in the Global South, Rowman and Littlefield. https://www.amazon.com/When-Students-Protest-Universities-Global/dp/1786611821
Bessant, J., Mejia Mesinas, A., and Pickard, S., eds, 2021, When students protest: universities in the Global North, Rowman and Littlefield. https://www.amazon.com.au/When-Students-Protest-Universities-Global/dp/1786611791
Grasso, M., and Bessant J., eds, 2018, Governing youth politics in the age of surveillance, Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315209746/governing-youth-politics-age-surveillance-maria-grasso-judith-bessant
Pickard, S., and Bessant, J., eds, 2018, Young people re-generating politics in times of crises, Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-58250-4
Bessant, J., Hil, R., and Watts, R., eds, 2005, Violation of trust: how schools and welfare systems have failed our young people, Ashgate. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315235011/violations-trust-judith-bessant-richard-hil
Bessant, J., and Cook, S., eds, 1998, Against the odds: young people and work in Australia, Australian Youth Clearinghouse. https://www.abebooks.com/Against-Odds-Young-People-Work-Edited/21457527353/bd
Cook, S., and Bessant, J., eds, 1997, Women’s encounters with violence: Australian experiences, Sage. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/womens-encounters-with-violence/book6316
Bessant, J., and Hil, R., eds, 1997, Youth crime and the media: media representations of and reactions to young people in relation to law and order, Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234758459_Youth_Crime_the_Media_Media_Representation_of_and_Reaction_to_Young_People_in_Relation_to_Law_and_Order
Bessant, J., Carrington, K., and Cook, S., eds, 1995, Cultures of crime and violence: the Australian experience, La Trobe University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-psychologists-and-counsellors-in-schools/article/abs/cultures-of-crime-and-violence-the-australian-experience-j-bessant-k-carrington-s-cook-eds-melbourne-la-trobe-university-press-1995-221-pp/65C296971527E2FD8C210F74103D4CE5