Offenders

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule.

Originally published in 1976.

Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it.

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, 8th edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and how juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency.

Teaching about gender, race, social class and sexuality in criminal justice and criminology classrooms can be challenging.

Reviewers comments on the first editionThis is an excellent introductory textbook on youth and crime.

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.

This book is a survival guide for all nurses who provide emergency care to children and young people.

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors.

When most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs.

Praise for the Fifth Edition:"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation.

Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them.

The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005.

Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook provides practical guidance in the assessment of the most frequently encountered offender subgroups found within the criminal justice system.

BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "e;A PLOT TO KILL"e; BY PRE-ORDERING NOW 'Hugely insightful and thought provoking .

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

Every year thousands of people compete for employment in the UK.

Clinicians who work on the frontlines of correctional mental health know that the challenges are only increasing.

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

What is a crime and how do we construct it?

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

This book covers the screening, diagnosis and treatment of mentally ill young people in the juvenile justice system.

The only pediatric prescribing guide organized by diagnosis for ease of useThis prescribing guide, organized uniquely by diagnosis, facilitates speedy drug information retrieval for advanced health care providers in all settings involved in the primary care management of newborns through adolescents.

This comprehensive and engaging textbook provides a fresh and sociologically-grounded examination of how deviance is constructed and defined and what it means to be classed a deviant.

Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

This comprehensive reference by nationally recognized experts provides an interdisciplinary overview of existing knowledge about sex offenders.

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections.

This text reference provides state-of-the-art information on juvenile firesetters and reviews the current research on youthful firesetters and arsonists.

Until now, the influential agents in rampage killings have been described with unsatisfactory generalizations or chalked up to unconscious impulses.

What is a crime and how do we construct it?

Delivers the most comprehensive information available for APNs on dealing with child behavioral and parenting challenges Front-line nurse practitioners are increasingly required to assess, identify, manage, and refer the complex and often significant childhood behavioral challenges occurring among children and adolescents.

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.

This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children.

Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and controlled, including compassion-focused and psychoanalytic approaches.

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance.

The Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology is a comprehensive handbook for mental health professionals working with juveniles in the criminal justice system and in family and dependency courts.

Teaching about gender, race, social class and sexuality in criminal justice and criminology classrooms can be challenging.

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

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as 'problem families'.

This report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime which focuses on failure; and research on educational development which focuses on success.

This report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime which focuses on failure; and research on educational development which focuses on success.

Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks underpinning the field of children and young people's mental health.

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Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control.

Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting.

This informative and entertaining book, peppered with personal anecdotes and rich in case studies, adopts a unique approach to studying the causes of crime.