Juvenile criminal law

This book aims to provide a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties, taking full account of recent developments and the creation of a National Probation Service in 2002.

Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time.

This book provides an overview of crimes under international law, radical evils, in a number of African states.

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults' ability to learn.

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.

This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US, Europe, alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights issues in developing countries or countries in transition.

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

Each entry in this essential collection of primary resources on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the death penalty in America, from colonial times to the present.

Designed as a supplemental text for juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice courses, this workbook fills a void in current textbooks.

Imprisonment has become big business in the United States.

Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon.

Exploring the application, theory, implications, and socio-legal underpinnings of human rights in probation and associated offender management, this book examines the key imperatives and practices of the Probation Service in England and Wales in relation to the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA).

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it.

Inhalt und Konzeption:Die für die Ausbildung und Prüfung im Schwerpunktbereich "Kriminologie, Jugendstrafrecht, Strafvollzug"; relevanten Themen des Jugendstrafrechts sind in diesem Band vollständig und mit ihren wichtigsten kriminologischen und kriminalpolitischen Bezügen dargestellt.

Norms of Violence: Violent Socialization Processes and the Spillover Effect for Youth Crime explores the degree to which violent socialization processes, both at the macro- and micro-levels, are associated with youth criminal behavior.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement.

The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release.

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons.

How do young women negotiate their identity in the shadow of a criminal past?

The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

Wheatley's Road Traffic Law in Scotland is a highly regarded source of reference for all those involved in the detection and prosecution of road traffic offences, with all the relevant law and authority presented in a clear and accessible style.

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 children's rights-violations of recent years, and puts forward strategies for reform.

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

The recent mass shooting of 22 innocent people in El Paso by a lone White gunman looking to "e;Kill Mexicans"e; is not new.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

Led by Professor David Ormerod and David Perry QC, our team of authors has been hand-picked to ensure that you can trust our unique combination of authority and practicality.

In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged.

Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services.

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology.

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Drawing on original research on community-based alternatives to offender rehabilitation, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers at the interface between criminal justice and welfare systems striving to address needs and provide multifaceted solutions.

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?

Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people.