Juvenile criminal law

To understand how people experience justice and security is a challenging task in times of unrest, marked by growing perceptions of insecurity, discrimination and uncertainty.

Immigration and School Safety utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the United States.

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially'some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling.

This book offers a sustained study of one feature of the prison officer's job: the threat and use of force, which the author calls 'doing' coercion.

A society's response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs.

Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate.

How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities?

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders.

The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions.

Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world.

Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America.

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women's imprisonment.

Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates' courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing.

The Law Officer's Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles.

Notoriously difficult to access, armed robbers have mostly eluded the attempts of authors to access their lives.

Much has been written about the laogai (sometimes likened to the Soviet gulag) in the People's Republic of China.

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases.

This monograph illuminates the connections between juvenile defense policies and the racially disparate impact of the juvenile justice system.

This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on Aboriginal children, young people, and their families.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States-prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws.

Why be lenient towards children who commit crimes?

Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy.

Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies.

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe.

Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs.

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All the world's criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences.

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media's influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland.

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

This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base.

The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to the prevention of re-offending in the ten to eighteen age bracket.

"Según reiterada doctrina del TC español, «la constitucionalidad de cualquier medida restrictiva de derechos fundamentales viene determinada por la estricta observancia del principio de proporcionalidad».

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders.

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration.

First published in 1981.

This book explores the challenges of transitional justice in West Africa, specifically how countries in the region have dealt with transitional justice problems in the last 30 years (1990-2020), and how they have managed the process.

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly on experiences from the Global North, this book critically addresses feminist law reform on violence against women, from a decolonial perspective.

When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.

The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

Now updated with a new introduction and afterword, this award-winning examination of the nations largest juvenile criminal justice system in Los Angeles by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist is an important book with a message of great urgency, especially to all concerned with the future of Americas children (Booklist).

This book offers an assessment of Barbara Wootton's legacy as a pioneering public criminologist.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.