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...
This vibrant book examines individual and societal factors contributing to the rise of bullying, lying, cheating, and narcissism, with emphasis on the influence of Trumpism and the valuing of getting things done over the importance of self-disciplin...Loe edasi...
This fully revised and expanded second edition focusses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, exploitation risk, mental health issues, and the inability to self-regulate and trust - a population that...Loe edasi...
Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence. It provides an authentic and accessible discussion of the theorie...Loe edasi...
First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of prisoners on a national scale. The survey attempts to portray objectively the conditions of life for the families of a wide range of...Loe edasi...
The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the r...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face from violence, severe psychological stress, to stigma and shame the book provides one of the first empirical as...Loe edasi...
In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately toward...Loe edasi...
Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populations....Loe edasi...
Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinquency crops up time after time. It examines bad behaviour among people who could otherwise be classed a...Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics....Loe edasi...
This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those who become involved in violent offending and organized crime....Loe edasi...
This book considers the intersection of music, politics and identity, focusing on music (genres) across the world as a form of political expression and protest, positive identity formations, but also how the criminalisation, censuring, policing and...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1941 basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the days new...Loe edasi...
Psychology of Gangs expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional wellbeing, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang preven...Loe edasi...
Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts....Loe edasi...
The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction focusing on residential care, policing, the pro...Loe edasi...
This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country. Offering an intercultural dialogue with mainstream explanations, Transitions Out of Crime analyses the transition from crime to conformity among a group of Chilean juvenil...Loe edasi...
This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material....Loe edasi...
This book examines how attorneys enable a meaningful opportunity for parole release for individuals sentenced to life as juveniles. The work will be relevant to students, academics, and policy makers, particularly for state parole boards, public def...Loe edasi...
This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights....Loe edasi...
Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to examine serial homicide offender (SHO) patterning globally, focusing on contemporary cases. This allows for a broader understanding of serial hom...Loe edasi...
This book provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school to prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justi...Loe edasi...
This ground-breaking volume explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs). Rooted in practice, it examines the transferability of approaches within international TCs to other forensic settings, while con...Loe edasi...
A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil....Loe edasi...
This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New...Loe edasi...
This book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence....Loe edasi...
This book brings together the fields of criminology, deviance and gender as a framework for discussing sex, sexuality and sex crime, covering core theoretical positions on social and sexual deviance and types of sexually deviant acts and sex crimes....Loe edasi...
Child to Parent Aggression and Violence includes suggestions for interventions, self-assessment on parent-directed aggression by children, and points of contact as reference to ease the process for both parents and practitioners....Loe edasi...
