This extended and fully updated new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to youth crime and justice, considering the key challenges facing the contemporary youth justice system, as well as theoretical explanations for youth criminality. Written at an accessible level accessible for advanced undergraduates, this text offers compelling perspectives and asks tough questions without watering down or over-simplifying complex issues. Features such as chapter summaries and review questions make this book a perfect launch pad for further study. It is essential reading for students taking…mehr
This extended and fully updated new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to youth crime and justice, considering the key challenges facing the contemporary youth justice system, as well as theoretical explanations for youth criminality. Written at an accessible level accessible for advanced undergraduates, this text offers compelling perspectives and asks tough questions without watering down or over-simplifying complex issues. Features such as chapter summaries and review questions make this book a perfect launch pad for further study. It is essential reading for students taking modules on youth crime, youth justice and contemporary social and criminal justice policy.
Roger Hopkins Burke is Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Criminology Subject Leader in the Division of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: The Problem of Youth Crime Part I: Young People Criminality and Criminal Justice 2. Children Young People and Modernity 3. From Justice to Welfare and its Malcontents 4. Youth Justice and the New Conservatism 5. New Labour and the Youth Justice System 6. Theorising the Development of Youth Justice. Part II: Explaining Offending Behaviour by the Children and Young People 7. Youth Offending as Rational Behaviour 8. Biological Explanations of Youth Offending 9. Psychological Explanations of Youth Offending 10. Sociological Explanations of Youth Offending Part III: The Contemporary Youth Justice System and its Critics 11. The Coalition the Big Society and Youth Justice Policy 12. The Contemporary Youth Justice System 13. Effective Youth Justice in Practice. Part IV: Alternative Youth Justice Systems and the Contemporary World 14. Youth Justice in Wider Context 15. Comparative Youth Justice 16. Conclusions ¿ the future of youth justice.
1. Introduction: The Problem of Youth Crime Part I: Young People Criminality and Criminal Justice 2. Children Young People and Modernity 3. From Justice to Welfare and its Malcontents 4. Youth Justice and the New Conservatism 5. New Labour and the Youth Justice System 6. Theorising the Development of Youth Justice. Part II: Explaining Offending Behaviour by the Children and Young People 7. Youth Offending as Rational Behaviour 8. Biological Explanations of Youth Offending 9. Psychological Explanations of Youth Offending 10. Sociological Explanations of Youth Offending Part III: The Contemporary Youth Justice System and its Critics 11. The Coalition the Big Society and Youth Justice Policy 12. The Contemporary Youth Justice System 13. Effective Youth Justice in Practice. Part IV: Alternative Youth Justice Systems and the Contemporary World 14. Youth Justice in Wider Context 15. Comparative Youth Justice 16. Conclusions ¿ the future of youth justice.
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