Roger Hopkins Burke

Young People, Crime and Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781138776616
• ISBN-10: 1138776610
• Artikelnr.: 57050603

Autorenporträt

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.