This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system....Loe edasi...
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...
Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a good life, this book examines the tangible ways in which the growing, cooking and eating together of food has the potential to be both transformative and small-steps incrementa...Loe edasi...
When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff. The author acknowledges that interest should of course be concentrated on the prisoner community but maintains that the prison staff must also be examin...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...
A practical guide to implementing trauma-informed restorative dialogues in prisons, with real-life insights from victims, offenders and facilitators across Europe. It fills a gap in the restorative justice literature by demonstrating how trauma-info...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...
This book voices the narratives of 15 women (10 of whom identify as Mori) with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand, and makes an original contribution to desistance literature by bringing greater conceptual clarity to gendered aspects...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison. She was made responsible for the welfare and rehabilitation of over 1,500 men, none of them first-offenders....Loe edasi...
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process....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 volume follows one mans revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolinas death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education....Loe edasi...
