Offenders

Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories.

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

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law.

They discuss how young men are drawn to gang life, how young girls become attracted and attached to the gang members who eventually sell them into prostitution, and why it is so hard to infiltrate and dismantle the distinct but interrelated worlds of the procurer, victim, and client.

Taking a new approach to youth crime, this book argues that the transition from childhood to adulthood can be an isolating and disempowering experience for young people.

This pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.

Youth mentoring can be an effective way of supporting troubled youth, helping them sustain positive mental health, cope with stress, and lead successful lives through adolescence and into adulthood.

Etwa elf Millionen Menschen leben weltweit in Gefängnissen.

In 2006, after a scandal that gripped the country, the British government began to transform its prison system.

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.

Youth delinquency, involving behaviours such as smoking, drinking, and premature sexual misconduct, is an ongoing issue in Southeast Asia.

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

In Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms which may lead to delinquent behaviour by those in office.

Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies.

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why institutions that serve apparently similar functions differ so much.

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system.

Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship.

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

Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.

First published in 1981.

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there.

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

„Böse Mädchen" – Anhand einer empirisch quantitativen Studie widmet sich die Autorin jungen Frauen in der Jugendphase, die durch körperliche Gewalt sowohl Rechts- als auch Geschlechternormen sprengen.

A practical handbook for practitioners that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities an area of growing interest within clinical forensic psychology.

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

["The Sanctioning of Insubordinate Patient Behaviour.

In many modern wars, there have been those who have chosen not to fight.

This edited volume showcases research on vulnerable victimizations, or more specifically, on individuals and/or populations that, due to their status, have less power in society, are socially controlled in unique ways in the criminal-legal system, or are members of marginalized groups with specialized considerations surrounding their victimization experiences, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, incarcerated persons, children, and females.

Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences.

Online, the opportunity to commit a crime is never more than a few clicks away.

This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of society s response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

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

​Mit dieser kriminologischen Längsschnittstudie nimmt Verena Boxberg Jugendstrafgefangene zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten in den Blick.

The second edition of Managing Clinical Risk is an authoritative guide on how to engage in risk assessment and management practice in evidence-based, accountable and effective ways.

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.

IF YOU THINK YOU'RE ALONE:THINK AGAIN A scratching at the window.

This second edition textbook focuses on the duties of juvenile justice administrators, featuring more illustrations, examples of programs, and interviews of juvenile justice administrators.

Brings together the growing amount of evidence on the assessment and treatment of offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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

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

This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David S.

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

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people.

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities.

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China's Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.