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This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention.

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people.

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior.

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This second volume of Richard Jessor's influential works applies his groundbreaking theory to illuminating the psychosocial determinants of adolescent health.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers' susceptibility to increased harm.

This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective.

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

This book critically examines the link between guns and violence.

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

This book examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.

The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate's expectations for their behaviour as they operate within a street code that endorses violence, knife-carrying and challenging masculinity.

This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power.

This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's rights.

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

This book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health - in Australia especially - including the circumstances that lead to police use of force, and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups.

Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept.