This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to...Loe edasi...
The book critiques the pathologization of gangs in recent decades, particularly its negative consequences for democracy in an age of punishment, cruelty and coercive social control. It critically reviews gang theory and the enabling role of orthodox...Loe edasi...
Delving into theoretical, conceptual, empirical, policy and practice issues, Youth Offending in Context will be of great value to students of youth justice, youth offending, youth crime, crime prevention, and criminal justice....Loe edasi...
This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching...Loe edasi...
Lawless Youth (1947) is a book prepared under the auspices of the International Committee of the Howard League for Penal Reform during the Second World War. The authors visualised the grim reality of winning back for society the children and young m...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as problem families. Harriett Wilson shows that they are not a homogenous group, and furthermore, that they do not possess any unique perso...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate. Who are the parents of these children? Why do they not marry? These...Loe edasi...
This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research. He believed that juvenile delinquency could be prevented and therefore a large part of adult criminality could be e...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1961, when delinquency and its cure constituted one of the gravest problems facing modern society. The term delinquent had a wide meaning, and the authors define its scope for the purposes of this book. They include all, juve...Loe edasi...
Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring childrens rights-violations of recent...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1959, this book critically examines, in the light of numerous research, both the relation between unacceptable behaviour and economic and social status and the validity of several popular hypotheses of the 20th Century....Loe edasi...
This book offers an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily at a juvenile diversion program and adds thick description of young peoples experiences learning about crime, delinquency, justice, and law....Loe edasi...
Criminal Psychology in Action provides a practical, hands-on introduction to criminal psychology through unique projects for students, illustrating the many ways research into crimes and criminals can be conducted. It also provides an overview of ma...Loe edasi...
First published in 1967, this work is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent has developed from the days when a boy of nine could be sentenced to be hanged for stealing two penny worth of paint (though the...Loe edasi...
Debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents, was usually presented as being between the exponents of law and order and punishment on the one hand, and the soft advocates of social work and treatment on the other. this title argued instead that i...Loe edasi...
Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their mu...Loe edasi...
In this title, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms which may lead to delinquent behaviour by those in office. His conclusions presented a serious challenge to the t...Loe edasi...
First published in 1949, this book was primarily written for all who had to do with delinquent children. What is probation? What happens to the person put on probation? What good is it supposed to do to him or to society? These are the questions whi...Loe edasi...
Growing Up and Out of Crime details how developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18-25 have diverged from previous generations, shifting the role of maturation that prompts us to examine if and how this maturation can influence des...Loe edasi...
