Young Adult Offenders

Lost in Transition?
Herausgeber: Lösel, Friedrich; Farrington, David P; Bottoms, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading experts to analyse both theoretical and policy issues relating to young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system, exploring different approaches to crime prevention and the treatment of offenders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780415747448
• ISBN-10: 0415747449
• Artikelnr.: 39594576

Autorenporträt

Friedrich Losel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Professor or Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Sir Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield. David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Young Adult Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Systems in Europe 3. Youth, Alcohol, and Aggression 4. Childhood Risk
Factors for Young Adult Offending: Onset and Persistence 5. Young Adult
Offenders in Custodial Institutions: Vulnerability, Relationships and Risks
6. What Works in Correctional Treatment and Rehabilitation for Young
Adults? 7. Young Women in Transition: from Offending to Desistance 8.
Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System among Young Adult Would-Be
Desisters 9. Lost in Transition? A View from the Youth Justice Board