1st Edition
Young Adult Offenders Lost in Transition?
1. Introduction 2. Young Adult Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems in Europe 3. Youth, Alcohol, and Aggression 4. Childhood Risk Factors for Young Adult Offending: Onset and Persistence 5. Young Adult Offenders in Custodial Institutions: Vulnerability, Relationships and Risks 6. What Works in Correctional Treatment and Rehabilitation for Young Adults? 7. Young Women in Transition: from Offending to Desistance 8. Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System among Young Adult Would-Be Desisters 9. Lost in Transition? A View from the Youth Justice Board
Biography
Friedrich Losel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Professor or Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Sir Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield.
David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.
"This book meets its aim of highlighting the variation in approaches to Young Adult Justice... Overall this book has the right balance of contributions to peak the interest of students, academics and practioners working with Young Adults"— Paul Crossey, Prison Service Journal
