Offenders

Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.

Analyzing sex-offense laws and false claims, this book shows that laws based on vengeance rather than justice or evidence create new forms of harm while failing to address the real and pervasive problem of sexual violence.

Analyzing sex-offense laws and false claims, this book shows that laws based on vengeance rather than justice or evidence create new forms of harm while failing to address the real and pervasive problem of sexual violence.

In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately towards academia.

In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately towards academia.

Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as 'evil', 'unnatural' and masculine.

Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as 'evil', 'unnatural' and masculine.

Selbst wachsen und Wachstum begleitenDieses Buch ist für jeden gedacht, der das Bedürfnis hat, sich selbst weiter in das Leben und in Beziehungen hinein zu entfalten.

This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today-an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.

The late 1970s saw the emergence of a heated debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents.

Con una vasta experiencia trabajando con jóvenes en situación de calle o privados de su libertad, el autor plantea una problemática que nos define como sociedad.

El hallazgo en el Archivo General de la Nación de las actas originales del debate que en el seno de la comisión de asesoramiento legislativo dio origen al Régimen penal de la minoridad hoy vigente (decreto 22.

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.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

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.

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.

Examining multi-agency working in response to anti-social behaviour, this book investigates the way in which the police, social work teams and the youth justice service work together on early intervention initiatives to help young people, and explores the complexities and practical struggles of these partnerships.

Unrivaled in its current coverage, Siegel's best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, 14E presents the historical development of the concept of childhood and delinquency as well as the latest research on when, where and why juvenile crime occurs.

Music can act as a powerful means of communication.

This book explores the development and implementation of Child First as an innovative guiding principle for improving youth justice systems.

This handbook brings together cutting-edge research from key contributors on the rapidly expanding and fast-changing field of UK youth gangs.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationA nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations.

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice.

Wann nützen Gefängnisse und wo richten sie Schaden an?

Wann nützen Gefängnisse und wo richten sie Schaden an?

A sheriff investigates his own brother's murder, deep in the heart of Appalachia.

Given the over-involvement of young men in crime and young men's disproportionally high rates of reoffending, it is surprising that more research has not explored young men's experiences of prison.

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

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

While scholarship on the education of youth behind bars has largely focused on boys, more than one in three youth arrests in the USA is female, and Girls Behind Bars sets out to address this imbalance.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020).

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

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

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

Exploring the pressing issues of juvenile delinquency, victimization, and justice in Chinese societies, this book showcases contemporary research on these critical topics.

"El futuro del mundo está en los jóvenes" es una frase altamente repetida en distintos escenarios sociales y de formulación de políticas públicas.

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

Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinquency crops up time after time.

Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinquency crops up time after time.

Music can act as a powerful means of communication.

This book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders.

This book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders.

Women and families within the criminal justice system (CJS) are increasingly the focus of research and this book considers the timely issues concerning experiences of punishment, abuse and justice.

Women and families within the criminal justice system (CJS) are increasingly the focus of research and this book considers the timely issues concerning experiences of punishment, abuse and justice.