Offenders

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention.

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

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action.

This book examines the implications of the professional and judicial discourses on migrant youth in the Belgian youth justice system.

Dominik Gerstner beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung von Gleichaltrigen bzw.

Dieses essential gibt einen Überblick über potenzielle Gefahren der Internetnutzung für junge Menschen.

This book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers.

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 book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%.

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

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

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every fourth mother conceived her first-born before her wedding day; and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate - figures that were paralleled in many countries of Europe and the Commonwealth at the time.

OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

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

Tackling juvenile offending has become a key part of crime reduction strategies.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

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

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective.

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective.

Providing an indispensable resource for students investigating sexual harassment in the United States, Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive summary of history, current events, possible solutions, and resources.

Run, jump and play.

Many deny that racism remains pervasive in America today.

This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.

A timely investigation of the history, legislation, and perpetrators of school violence, this guide debunks the myths and misconceptions about this terrible problem of national concern.

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.

There has been a significant increase in the focus on sex offending in recent years in both the academic and public spheres.

This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.

This book provides a fresh look at the way the United States is choosing to deal with some of the serious or persistent youth offenders: by transferring juvenile offenders to adult courts.

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.

This book examines the nature, prevention, and treatment of violence within families.

Sibling sexual abuse is believed to be the most common and long-lasting form of all intra-familial abuse, with estimates suggesting that it is five times more prevalent than parent-child sexual abuse.

Sibling sexual abuse is believed to be the most common and long-lasting form of all intra-familial abuse, with estimates suggesting that it is five times more prevalent than parent-child sexual abuse.

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior.

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

Der Wunsch, der Bestrafung für einen Gesetzesverstoß zu entgehen, ist nur allzu menschlich.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects of deradicalization theories, programs and methods.

There is growing recognition that sexual offending is a multi-determined phenomenon requiring a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

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 examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.