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Monica (Ed) Barry - Youth Offending and Youth Justice - 9781843106890 - V9781843106890
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Youth Offending and Youth Justice

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Description for Youth Offending and Youth Justice Paperback. Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice debates, tackling issues such as the criminalisation and penalisation of youth, sentencer decision-making, the incarceration of young people and the role of public opinion. It also features an applied focus on professional practice. Editor(s): Barry, Monica; McNeill, Fergus. Series Editor(s): Lishman, Joyce. Series: Research Highlights. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.

How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such key issues.

Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice debates, tackling issues such as the criminalisation and penalisation of youth, sentencer decision-making, the incarceration of young people and the role of public opinion. It also features an applied focus on professional practice.

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Product Details

Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Research Highlights in Social Work
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843106890
SKU
V9781843106890
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1

About Monica (Ed) Barry
Monica Barry is a senior research fellow at the Glasgow School of Social Work, and an honorary senior research fellow at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. She is author of Youth Offending in Transition: The Search for Social Recognition and editor of Youth Policy and Social Inclusion: Critical Debates with Young People, both published by Routledge. Fergus ... Read more

Reviews for Youth Offending and Youth Justice
This is an excellent text in every possible regard... The editors gave little in the way of guidance as to what they were expecting - a brave (or foolish) course of action that could have led to a unfocused piece (or a great deal of re-writting) but has resulted in an excellent, coherent, insightful addition to the growing body of ... Read more

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