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This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.
This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights.
This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more).
At a time when problems of crime and antisocial behaviour stimulate debate on big society solu tions, this book provides an exceptional means of tracing a line of response which began at the end of the 18th century.
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.
From concerns about juveniles' incorrigibility at the turn of the century to school violence in the 1990s, adults have attempted to understand, control, and prevent... Læs mere
This book offers an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily at a juvenile diversion program and adds thick description of young people’s experiences learning about crime, delinquency, justice, and law.
This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide,... Læs mere
A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil.
The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. Updated throughout, this edition includes a new chapter on political deviance since... Læs mere
The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. Updated throughout, this edition includes a new chapter on political deviance since... Læs mere
Drawing on interviews with young Australians, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary international scholarship on youth and violence, while also examining the potential for complicity to violence in youth research and practice.