John Pitts

Working with Young Offenders (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive and critical account of the changes introduced into the UK youth justice system by the 1998 Crime and Disorder legislation, and its implications for youth justice managers and professionals. It identifies strategies for the practitioner that address the impact of crime, the social predicament of the young offender and the effectiveness of formal and informal mechanisms of social control and social support, thereby showing ways of coming to grips with one of the most serious problems besetting the poorest members of our society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349143481
• Artikelnr.: 54789490

Autorenporträt

JOHN PITTS is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime at the University of Luton, UK.