Offenders

Cyberflashing has been on the rise since the Covid-19 pandemic.

This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.

Diese Studie begeht einen neuen Weg zur Erklärung von Devianz und Gewalt im Jugendalter, indem sie versucht, zwei soziologische Ansätze, die Theorie Sozialer Desintegration und die Control Balance Theory, miteinander zu verknüpfen.

Why are some ethnic minorities associated with higher levels of offending?

The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

This book provides a guide for undergraduate criminology and criminal justice students undertaking their final-year dissertation.

Finalist: PROSE Awards 2025 - Education Theory and PracticeWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global state-of-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons.

Despite the fact that media bombard the public with the notion that sex offenders are everywhere-and could be just next door-official sources show that official sex offense rates have been steadily declining over the past 10 years.

Punishment of offenders is one of the most universal features of human behavior.

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.

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.

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century.

Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy.

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 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.

Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time.

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm.

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.

This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the standard of 'full protection and security' (FPS) in international investment law.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world.

The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era.

In the child welfare system some youth do well in their lives, but far too many do not experience positive outcomes by the time they are leaving government services.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This book explores young people's perspectives on risk and harm in youth sexting, specifically privacy violations and unwanted, pressured and coerced sexting.

Reducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments.

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil.

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

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

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

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

Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to review offender patterning with a focus on contemporary cases.

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

Unfamiliar with today's job market, many ex-offenders could use good advice on how to best land a job.

This new addition to the Fast Facts series delivers the core information for orienting novice nurses or nursing students to the challenging field of pediatric nursing.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime, crimes against the environment, terrorism and cybercrime.

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

Based on key research into assessment, treatment and recidivism, this book offers practical guidance on improving intervention techniques with sex offenders.

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families.

How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings?

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Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.