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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.

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

Given the over-involvement of young men in crime and young men's disproportionally high rates of reoffending, it is surprising that more research has not explored young men's experiences of prison.

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

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies is rooted in the instability, inequality and liquidity of the post-industrial era.

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.

Desistance is one of the big news stories of the criminological world.

Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal.

Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies.

Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment is the first book to bring together current research, clinical assessment, and treatment techniques of female sexual offenders into one accessible volume.

Resozialisierung hat im Justizvollzug eine bereits im Strafvollzugsgesetz verankerte zentrale Bedeutung.

Originally published in 1981, Modern Policing provided an opportunity for members of the Police Staff College, Bramshill to air their views about different aspects of modern British policing.

A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community.

This Element examines a community crime prevention strategy that has proven to be effective in controlling crime - focused deterrence.

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.

For several decades qualitative research has been under-represented in criminological and criminal justice research.

Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s.

This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial.

This book presents the findings from the Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC) study.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

This "e;Essential Handbook"e; provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment.

This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs, exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men and their quest for social respect.

Using the framework of interest group conflict, this text combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system.

`This is the latest in a series of accessible, evidence-based resources from Jessica Kingsley Publishers for those seeking to understand and promote young people's mental health.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

Ein Kommentar von Praktikern für Praktiker!

The late 1970s saw the emergence of a heated debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents.

This is a book for social workers working within the youth justice system; a highly demanding area of practice that requires a depth of knowledge and skill.

Women and families within the criminal justice system (CJS) are increasingly the focus of research and this book considers the timely issues concerning experiences of punishment, abuse and justice.

In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

Sport is perceived to have the potential to alleviate a variety of social problems and generally to 'improve' both individuals and the communities in which they live.

What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954?

This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua.

A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community.

Das Standardwerk zur Untersuchungshaft bietet einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick über die anwaltlichen Möglichkeiten, die von der Untersuchungshaft ausgehenden Eingriffe entweder ganz zu verhindern oder abzumildern und zu begrenzen.

This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those who become involved inviolent offending and organized crime.

The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art.

Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment is the first book to bring together current research, clinical assessment, and treatment techniques of female sexual offenders into one accessible volume.

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

Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.

Homicide: Towards a Deeper Understanding offers an in-depth analysis into the phenomenon of homicide, examining different types of homicide and how these types have changed over time.

Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings.

This book is an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily as judges, advocates and other court personnel at the Red Hook Youth Court (RHYC) in Brooklyn, New York-a juvenile diversion program designed to prevent the formal processing of juvenile offenders-usually first-time offenders-for low-level offenses (such as fare evasion, truancy, vandalism) within the juvenile justice system.

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings.