Juvenile criminal law

Tracing lessons from history and drawing on debates of social harm; public health; reductionist and abolitionist perspectives; and comparative and transnational research, Goldson articulates the content and shape of a re-imagined juvenile justice that is theoretically informed, based on evidence and compliant with human rights. Learn More

Tracing lessons from history and drawing on debates of social harm; public health; reductionist and abolitionist perspectives; and comparative and transnational research, Goldson articulates the content and shape of a re-imagined juvenile justice that is theoretically informed, based on evidence and compliant with human rights. Learn More

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This book investigates the systemic determinants of youth custodial sentencing in England and Wales, offers an account of the patterns of youth imprisonment and a nuanced explanation of systemic features at different times and in different places. Learn More

Through the lens of an original, detailed qualitative study with 27 girls involved in compensated dating and a quantitative study involving around 1,000 parents, social workers, police officers, and community leaders, this book offers readers both insiders' voices and outsiders' views of compensated dating. Learn More

In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately towards academia. Learn More

This book focuses on the parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face - from violence, severe psychological stress, to stigma and shame - the book provides one of the first empirical assessments of the ways parents manage the consequences of serious crime. Learn More

This book considers the role of the family in the lives of offenders and the criminal justice system in Japan. Learn More

The Life-Course of Serious and Violent Youth Grown Up addresses significant gaps in the literature on youth involved in chronic, serious, and violent offending. Through longitudinal research and a long follow-up into adulthood, it challenges common perceptions about offender outcomes in adulthood. Learn More

This book examines how protective and risk factors associated with two distinct types of youth violence-exposure to and engagement in violence-are nested within four layers of the ecological framework: community, family, peers, and youth characteristics. Learn More

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This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. Learn More