Offenders

This book is written for students and clinicians who want to learn about adolescent behavioral health and psychosocial development.

This book is written for students and clinicians who want to learn about adolescent behavioral health and psychosocial development.

This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture - the Builders Project.

Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police-community relations, and rollback the "e;tough on crime"e; movement.

Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police-community relations, and rollback the "e;tough on crime"e; movement.

Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.

Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.

Pediatric integrative medicine is a rapidly evolving field with great potential to improve the quality of preventive health in children and expand treatment options for children living with chronic disease.

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties.

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THE CORE, 6th Edition delivers cutting-edge coverage of essential theory, policy, and the latest research in one value-priced, reader-friendly paperback.

This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that you will need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth.

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year.

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a troubling reality.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more).

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.

This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system.

This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities.

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

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

Corruption is a problem in prisons about which we hear very little, except when there is an escape from custody or other scandal that makes the media.

Winner of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book AwardYouth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California.

Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity.

Self-Selection Policing introduces and explores an approach for crime control which seeks to identify active, serious offenders by attending to the minor offences they commit.

This book shows how the overall impact of the penal policy agenda of the Coalition Government 2010-2015 has not led to the intended 'rehabilitation revolution', but austerity, outsourcing and punishment, designated here as 'punitive managerialism'.

This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens.

This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners.

This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators.

The risk assessment process, the interventions and treatment commenced as a result of it and the theory behind it are central to the administration of criminal justice programmes around the world.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment.

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

By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.

This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities.

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders.

This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in which contributors reflect upon their experiences with powerless and powerful individuals or groups.

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

Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members.

Young people explain, excuse and justify violence in a range of situations and view violence prevention as a difficult, if not impossible, endeavour.

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.