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Falling Back
Rutgers University Press 2013; US$ 27.95Falling Back documents the transition to adulthood for young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. It is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males on the cusp of adulthood and incarcerated at a rural reform school. The book portrays the complexities of human decision-making... 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...
Youth Justice,Smith
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95This is a thoroughly revised edition of Roger Smith's book published in 2003. The book provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the youth justice system. It begins by setting the youth justice system in historical context, and then assesses the impact of political ideas and influence on both the structural arrangements for delivering youth... more...
Understanding Youth Offending
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 53.95This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the part of critical criminologists... 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...
Jugendliche haben Recht
Beobachter-Buchverlag 2013; Not AvailableJugendliche haben ihre Rechte! In diesem Ratgeber finden Jugendliche, Eltern, Lehrpersonen, Jugendarbeiter und all jene, die in Beruf oder Freizeit mit Jugendlichen Kontakt haben, umfassende Antworten. Kann ein 17-Jähriger Schulden machen? Müssen Eltern für unbezahlte Rechnungen ihres Sohnes geradestehen? Wer haftet, wenn ihre Teenager-Tochter das... more...
Weggesperrt
Beobachter-Buchverlag 2013; Not AvailableWer nicht «recht tat», wurde eingesperrt - ohne Gerichtsurteil. Die Beobachter-Spurensuche zu den administrativ Versorgten - einem dunklen Kapitel Schweizer Geschichte. Die 17-jährige Ursula Biondi muss ihr Baby in einem Gefängnis zur Welt bringen, und nur dank ihres erbitterten Widerstands kommt es nicht zur Zwangsadoption. Als der Beobachter diesen... more...
What Works in Probation Youth Justice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.50Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in recent years, and continue to face important new challenges. A key emphasis of new developments has been on developing effective evidence-based practice and disseminating this throughout the Probation and Youth Justice services - reviewed in this book. more...
Rougher Justice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy. Yet anti-social behaviour as a concept has been little studied, and the notion has often been accepted uncritically. This book aims to meet this need, providing a critique of the government's use of the concept... more...
Reluctant Gangsters
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local',... more...









