Juvenile criminal law

Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyses the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India. The book compares the juvenile justice systems of USA, UK and China with India. Learn More

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the results of a research project funded by the Home Office Research Unit. 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

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a socio-historical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and UK. The book links racial disparities in youth justice, exclusion from ideologies of care and notions of future citizenship. Learn More

Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice is the first book to explore cultural identity, acculturation and perceived discrimination of Muslim youth across Western countries in relation to social work, as well as the radicalisation and extremist views and actions of a small number of Muslim youth. 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

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging. The work is based on a random sample of over 1000 muggings which occurred within the Metropolitan Police District in the mid-1970s. Learn More

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

Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populations. 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

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

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

First published in 1980, this title is a view of the relationship between the police and the community, written by an outsider who had worked very closely with the police. It covers many Forces and projects, particularly in Scotland who pioneered community policing. Learn More