Juvenile criminal law

There is an impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice, represented by punitive and harmful practices, and liberal objections to these processes on the other, based predominantly on arguments for 'rehabilitation'.

Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency.

Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency.

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning?

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning?

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls' offending in Britain reached fever pitch.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls' offending in Britain reached fever pitch.

This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system.

This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system.

Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue.

Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue.

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants.

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants.

Youth Justice in Context examines the influence of legislative, organizational, policy and practice issues in shaping what constitutes compliance and how non-compliance is responded to when supervising young offenders in the community.

Youth Justice in Context examines the influence of legislative, organizational, policy and practice issues in shaping what constitutes compliance and how non-compliance is responded to when supervising young offenders in the community.

The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second edition in 2007.

The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second edition in 2007.

This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders.

This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders.

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders.

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders.

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.

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.

On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the 'respectable' motorist.

On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the 'respectable' motorist.

Identifying and exploring the challenges in understanding and responding to youth crime, this book investigates the different contexts which contribute to youth offending as well as those which either help or hinder effective youth justice responses to it.

Based on a huge body of research in child language and communication development, Children's Communication Skills uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

Based on a huge body of research in child language and communication development, Children's Communication Skills uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

A unique companion to professional play practice!

A unique companion to professional play practice!

This book provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the criminal justice system, and the implementation of referral orders and youth offender panels.

Globally, young people's health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people's health.

Globally, young people's health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people's health.

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

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

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject.

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject.

From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.

From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures.

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures.

Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades.

Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades.

This new edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exciting new findings in the thriving area of developmental psychology.

This new edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exciting new findings in the thriving area of developmental psychology.

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era.

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era.

Promote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions!

Promote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions!

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s.