Offenders

This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

Combining theory with practical application, this seminal introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice integrates the latest research with emerging problems and trends in an overview of the field.

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

This textbook offers a foundation for understanding adolescents' rights by articulating the complexity, breadth, and challenging nature of laws regulating adolescents.

This book examines the global phenomenon of school violence and its wide range of behaviours, from school shootings to minor theft, bullying and sexual harassment.

This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.

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 offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.

This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries.

This book examines the current debate about UK street gangs termed the 'UK Gang Thesis' debate.

From Jacqueline Jackson, wife of Jesse Jackson, role model, and civil rights veteran, comes an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour—and a lesson to everyone who has been touched by the scourge of mass incarceration.

From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the worldthe system, the staff, and the haunting casesthat shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned how to doctor and how to love.

A rare first-hand account of disaffected youth.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation.

The first special juvenile court was created in 1899.

Internationally,there is now an acceptance of the need to develop new strategies in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles.

"e;The best book I've read this year"e; Rachael, Goodreads reviewer "e;Fantastic"e; Rachel, Goodreads reviewer "e;Funny, insightful, heart-breaking"e; NetGalley reviewer "e;A magnificent book"e; Jo, Goodreads reviewer Step inside one of Britain's most renowned prisons.

Young women are a group often neglected even in feminist scholarship.

A completely gripping, gritty crime thriller from UK Top 20 bestselling author John NichollIs it revenge or is it justice?

The start of a dark edge-of-your-seat crime series from UK Top 20 bestselling author John NichollOne missing girl.

Women who encounter the criminal justice system are far more likely to have experienced domestic or sexual abuse than the wider female population.

Women who encounter the criminal justice system are far more likely to have experienced domestic or sexual abuse than the wider female population.

Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency.

What I hope this timely and fascinating book does is to take the reader beyond the lurid interest in art by society's outcasts, to discovering the hugely positive role art plays in prison life - Grayson Perry.

Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.

A resource for arts therapists and other clinicians on working with people who have committed sexual offences.

This book examines the psychosocial, legal, and familial factors at play in the persistencein crime and social marginalization in adults with a history of juvenile delinquency,setting out the political and social implications, and delineating new lines of research.

This book examines the psychosocial, legal, and familial factors at play in the persistencein crime and social marginalization in adults with a history of juvenile delinquency,setting out the political and social implications, and delineating new lines of research.

In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth.

An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children.

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries.

Prison is seen by most people as an inevitable part of the penal system, but there is a growing awareness that its effects on offenders are rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful.

Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States.

This book examines the incendiary issue of racial variation in crime rates in the United States and in many other countries using a variety of data sources.

From the corsairs of the Barbary Coast to Blackbeard to Jean Lafitte, pirates have been a part of every culture for centuries.

When You Have to Go to Prison was written to help anyone who is preparing to go to prison with the possibilities, expectations, and realities of their situation - from the strain it will put on a marriage to the conversations you will need to have with your children.

This exploration of juvenile corrections librarianship provides a complete description of these specialized services, addresses unique challenges in this library environment, and promotes intellectual and social growth for at-risk youth.

Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youth's family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.

A Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates first explores how inmates perceive prisons in general, as well as particular aspects of the facilities where they serve time.

The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice.

The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice.

Accounts of female offenders' journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized.

Accounts of female offenders' journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized.

Long-term prisoners need to be given the space to reflect, and grow.

Long-term prisoners need to be given the space to reflect, and grow.

A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors.

Now a major BBC drama, Waiting for the Out.

'A memoir to shine a light in the darkest of nights .