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Dispatches from Juvenile Hall
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 15.00A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with... more...
Compassionate Confinement
Rutgers University Press 2013; US$ 23.95This ethnographic text brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys? residential facility, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system?s most troubling tensions. The book provides narratives, observations,... more...
American Foundations
Brookings Institution Press 2010; US$ 64.95Attempts to assess the impact and significance of philanthropic foundations in the United States. more...
Family Life and Youth Offending
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal justice system, but this book examines how this evidence... more...
Evaluating Community Collaborations
Springer Publishing Company 2003; US$ 69.00Collaborations, which bring organizations together in a community to implement or improve an innovative program or change a policy or procedure, have become a central strategy for promoting community change. Funders require them; nonprofits see them as useful solutions to their problems of declining resources and increasing complexity (including multicultural... more...
Youth, Crime and Justice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile criminality occur. Students are invited to explore the... more...
The Value Base of Social Work and Social Care
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 151.00Explores the concepts and themes that help us understand the value base in social work. This book examines the tensions between values such as justice, anti-discrimination, compassion, and empathy, and the need for professionalism, accountability, cost codes, and performance measurement. more...
Understanding Youth Offending
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 53.95Taking a new approach to youth crime, this book argues that the transition from childhood to adulthood can be an isolating and disempowering experience for young people. Children and young people are inherently vulnerable because of their age and status ? they are a minority group, with the potential for being exploited, discriminated against, dominated... more...
Youth Offending and Youth Justice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2009; US$ 36.95Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice debates, tackling issues such as the criminalisation and penalisation of youth, sentencer decision-making, the incarceration of young people and the role of public opinion. It also features an applied focus on professional practice. more...
Wohnverhältnisse und Hartz IV - Tätigkeitsfeld für Soziale Arbeit?
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37In letzter Zeit werden prekäre Wohnverhältnisse immer öfter mit dem Begriff von "Zwangsumzügen" in Verbindung gebracht. Menschen die von Hartz IV betroffen sind, sollen von den Arbeitsgemeinschaften, einem Zusammenschluss der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und der Kommune, immer häufiger zum Auszug aus ihrer angestammten Wohnung aufgefordert werden. Diese... more...









