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The probation service's venture into financial partnerships with non-statutory agencies during the 1990s was viewed both as a development opportunity for improving services, and as a threat to professional identity and job security.

This book provides a focused and critical international overview of the intersections between race, crime perpetration and victimization, and criminal justice policy and practice responses to crime perpetration and crime victimization.

Procedure is not just a programme or a nexus of formalities.

This book vigorously challenges the dominant academic view of ASBOs as erroneous tools of social control, and offers an alternative perspective on anti-social behaviour management which argues that ASBOs are capable of enabling a positive process of engagement among local authorities, housing professionals and residents.

Examining the successful movements to abolish capital punishment in the UK, France, and Germany, this book examines the similarities in the social structure and political strategies of abolition movements in all three countries.

The new edition of Doing Time brings this widely recognized book up-to-date and provides an accessible and informed discussion of current debates around prisons and penal policy.

Can offenders be rehabilitated?

We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin?

This book focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body- the Criminal Cases Review Commission- to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up following notorious cases such as the Birmingham Six in the UK.

This book locates the rise of illicit drug use within the historical development of late industrial society and challenges the prevailing view.

Focusing on male-on-male rape, this book looks at the common myths surrounding this taboo issue, including the idea that 'men who rape other men must be homosexual' and that 'real men can't be raped'.

Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects.

In this fascinating new work, Karen Duke explores the conflicts and contradictory pressures in the development of prison drugs policy in Britain from 1980 to the present.

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

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

A significant percentage of sexual abuse in the United States is committed by juveniles, and mental health professionals increasingly receive requests to evaluate these juveniles.

It is no secret that America's sentencing and corrections systems are in crisis, and neither system can be understood or repaired fully without careful consideration of the other.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society.

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children.

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

What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal?

In this book, Slobogin and Fondacaro present their vision for a new juvenile justice system, founded on the evidence at hand and promoting the principles of rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society.

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children.

The Cycle of Juvenile Justice takes a historical look at juvenile justice policies in the United States.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending.

Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year.

Lawmakers and judges often enact and enforce laws and policies that impact youth.

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

Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year.

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners.

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders.

In the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have appeared with increasing frequency in the news media.

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The press called Martin's actions a "e;crime spree.

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

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

The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison.

The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison.

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.

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.

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Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

Even as restorative justice has captured the attention of justice practitioners, academics and communities worldwide and most research suggests that it has the potential to repair the harm of a criminal offense and reduce offending, there is also evidence that it can have no effect or even make things worse.

Even as restorative justice has captured the attention of justice practitioners, academics and communities worldwide and most research suggests that it has the potential to repair the harm of a criminal offense and reduce offending, there is also evidence that it can have no effect or even make things worse.