Youth offending and youth justice / edited by Monica Barry and Fergus McNeill.

How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such...

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Other Authors: Barry, Monica, McNeill, Fergus
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.
Series:Research highlights in social work ; 52.
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Table of Contents:
  • Youth Offending and Youth Justice; Contents; Part One Youth Offending and Youth Justice in Context; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Changing Landscape of Youth and Youth Crime; Chapter 3 Criminal Careers and Young People; Chapter 4 Children and Young People: Criminalisation and Punishment; Chapter 5 Youth Justice Policy and its Influence on Desistance from Crime; Chapter 6 Youth, Crime and Punitive Public Opinion: Hopes and Fears for the Next Generation; Part Two Youth Offending and Youth Justice in Practice; Chapter 7 Beyond Risk Assessment: The Return of Repressive Welfarism?