Juvenile criminal law

“The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book.

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters.

This book explores the nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its consequences, factors that increase its occurrence, and potential solutions to the problem.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and punishment.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

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.

Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam-- have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades.

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes.

Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century focuses on the evolution and consequences of sentencing policies and practices, with sentencing broadly defined to include plea bargaining, judicial and juror decision making, and alternatives to incarceration, including participation in problem-solving courts.

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to criminology in Ireland.

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

This co-authored book critically reviews existing literature on school resource officer (SRO) programs and presents a thorough evaluation of an SRO program offered by Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada.

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent.

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law.

Im sogenannten "Schulenstreit" zwischen der "modernen" Strafrechtsschule um Franz v.

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment.

Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties.

It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women.

Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.

This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, as well as in the prisoner's quest for citizenship.

The Youth Court Guide is the definitive legal handbook for practitioners involved in the youth court.

In Gangs and Organized Crime, George W.

In 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system.

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

How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law?

A Washington Post bestseller!

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.

Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.