Offenders

In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report.

For a practical, hands-on approach to learning forensic psychology, Experiments in Anti-Social Behaviour: Ten Studies for Students presents a collection of unique projects for students that illustrate the many ways research into anti-social behaviour can be conducted whilst also highlighting social psychological aspects of criminality.

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

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

Authoritative, current, and easy to use, this book is an outstanding resource for readers looking to gain an accurate and thorough understanding of American juvenile justice.

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Die Studie befasst sich auf breiter empirischer Basis mit den vielfältigen Lebenswelten und -realitäten junger Menschen und beleuchtet differenziert die möglichen Zusammenhänge wiederholter Jugenddelinquenz.

This moving book provides an inside-view of life in prison, and people's remarkable ability to make sense of their lives there as they learn to meditate.

Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences.

Originally published in 1981, Modern Policing provided an opportunity for members of the Police Staff College, Bramshill to air their views about different aspects of modern British policing.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity.

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system.

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.

This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.

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This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place.

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

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

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today.

This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept.

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

A network analysis of over 22,000 delinquent youths in Stockholm between 1991–5.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime, particularly the impact of father-son relationships.

COGNITIVE SELF CHANGE The consensus amongst the leading researchers in the offender treatment area is that the comprehensive and sophisticated clinical methods the authors have derived for offender treatment are unsurpassed.

This book addresses domestic abuse and stalking among young people in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on intersectionality and lifestyle settings.

Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

Though criminology took root in Russia in the early 1800s and has gone through various stages of maturation-paralleling developments of the discipline in Europe and North America over the last two centuries-its contributions and presence in the field is hardly noticeable in the English-speaking world.

Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising about sexual offending.

Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals.

Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve.

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The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005.

Trapped, the first in a series of highly anticipated new titles from foster carer Rosie Lewis, plus The Boy No One Loved, the first title in the bestselling series from foster carer Casey Watson, now combined into a single eBook-only volume.

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

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

This book is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyze emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law, especially in the field of comparative constitutional law.

Combining theory with practical application, this seminal introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice integrates the latest research with emerging problems and trends in an overview of the field.

This book is an examination of recent developments in the areas of youth justice and child protection.

Every year thousands of people compete for employment in the UK.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

A resource for arts therapists and other clinicians on working with people who have committed sexual offences.

This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for.

This report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime which focuses on failure; and research on educational development which focuses on success.

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.