This book aims to meet the need for an exploration of youth justice and youth offending which takes account of the origins and contemporary manifestations of risk-focused work with young people. It analyzes the influence of concepts of risk upon policy development in both England and Wales as well as internationally, highlighting tensions between the proponents of risk factor research and methodological and ethical criticisms of the risk factor paradigm. It will be essential reading for anybody wishing to understand risk factor explanation of crime, contemporary youth justice policy and responses to offending behaviour.
Youth has been a focus of the sociologies of deviance, popular culture, and criminology. The text reassesses the growing body of writing and research about crime and young people. It...
This exceptional book is based upon a major Australian research programme to consider the key social factors impacting upon the lives of young people.
This book provides a useful and challenging overview of the topic for undergraduate students." The Times Higher Education Supplement This book is an accessible introduction to the subject of youth and crime.
This book is a key resource for students, academics and practitioners across fields including criminal law, youth justice, probation and social work.
This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide to youth justice practice based on a solid grounding of academic research and in-depth understanding of how the youth justice system operates.
This work provides the necessary information and promotes further development of the evidence base so that youth justice systems can better meet the needs of young Australians.
This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base.
This book explores international and historical evidence on how societies regulate criminal behaviour by young people and asks whether young people should be treated as responsible moral and legal agents in the youth justice system.
Participation in the process, however, was perceived as akin to Field's 'qualified voluntarism in relationships with children' (Field in Hoffman and MacDonald 2011:164). Practitioners asserted that children (at stage three/ABC in ...
The distinguished contributors to Young people and 'risk' consider risk not only in terms of public protection but also in terms of young people's own vulnerability to being harmed (either by others or through self-inflicted behaviour).