Youth Work Books

New and Published Books

1. Criminal Justice

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Joyce

   This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Promoting Health and Well-being in Social Work Education

   Edited by Beth R. Crisp, Liz Beddoe

   Social work educators can play an important part in ensuring that the promotion of health and well-being is firmly on the social work agenda for service users, as well as for students and educators. Nevertheless, this has not been a priority within social work education and presents a challenge...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Skills in Neighbourhood Work

   4th Edition

   By Paul Henderson, David N. Thomas

   Skills in Neighbourhood Work is a practice textbook. It explains the skills, knowledge and techniques needed by community workers and other practitioners to work effectively in and with communities. While the principles and methods it describes have stood the test of time, the political, economic...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults

   A Clinician’s Guide to the Transition From Adolescence to Autonomy

   By Brad Sachs

   Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Youth Justice in Context

   Community, Compliance and Young People

   By Mairéad Seymour

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Youth Justice in Context examines the influence of legislative, organizational, policy and practice issues in shaping what constitutes compliance and how non-compliance is responded to when supervising young offenders in the community. It also addresses the impact of adolescent developmental...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Community Mental Health

   Challenges for the 21st Century, Second Edition

   Edited by Jessica Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg

   The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings. Readers will find that this new edition is also on the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Understanding Family Diversity and Home - School Relations

   A guide for students and practitioners in early years and primary settings

   By Gianna Knowles, Radhika Holmstrom

   How can adults in Early Years settings and primary schools fully embrace the diverse nature of family life of the children they are working with? This essential text will help students and those already working with children to understand both theoretically and practically, what may constitute a ‘...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

   Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck

   Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Thinking Comprehensively About Education

   Spaces of Educative Possibility and their Implications for Public Policy

   Edited by Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Edmund W. Gordon

   While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transforming Youth Justice

    By Anna Souhami

    In 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system. The creation of inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) for the delivery of youth justice services were the cornerstone of the new approach. These new YOTs were designed to tackle...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge