Youth Offending and Youth Justice Books

New and Published Books

1. Youth, Crime and Justice

   By Cyndi Banks

   Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Boy Racer Culture

   Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

   By Karen Lumsden

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Risk Assessment for Juvenile Violent Offending

   Edited by Anna Baldry, Andreas Kapardis

   This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders. The book is based on a longitudinal data base of juveniles who have committed violent crimes and who have been followed up after ...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Willan
4. 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
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. Young Adult Offenders

   Lost in Transition?

   Edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms, David P. Farrington

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies....

   Published May 27th 2012 by Willan
7. Juvenile Justice Administration

   By Peter C. Kratcoski

   An effective administrator must not only have the educational background to understand the foundational basis for the system, but must also be guided by the vision and mission of the organization. Juvenile Justice Administration illustrates through examples and interviews with juvenile justice...

   Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
8. 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
9. Offending Girls

   Young Women and Youth Justice

   By Gilly Sharpe

   At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth...

   Published October 20th 2011 by Willan
10. Staying Safe at School, Second Edition

    By Chester L. Quarles, Tammy F. Quarles

    Now more than ever before, today’s schools are hazard zones. Students are vulnerable to attack from other students and random individuals who may appear to be harmless on the surface or who may be sending out warning signals. Either way, to save their lives or protect themselves from injury, they...

    Published May 23rd 2011 by CRC Press