Chris Cunneen, Rob White, Kelly Richards

Juvenile Justice

Youth and Crime in Australia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Young offenders and juvenile crime have a high public profile today. In most advanced industrialized countries there is the same heightened awareness of youth issues, fulled by extensive media hype surrounding youthful deviance and anti-social behavior. Juvenile Justice: An Australian perspective describes and examines the issues, people and institutions involved in juvenile justice in Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 5th UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 168mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780195598421
• ISBN-10: 0195598423
• Artikelnr.: 44149641

Autorenporträt

Chris Cunneen, Professor in the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, and Law, University of New South Wales Rob White, Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania Kelly Richards, Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology

Inhaltsangabe

c Part 1: History, Theory and Institutions
1. The Development of Juvenile Justice
2. Theories of Juvenile Offending
3. The Nature of Contemporary Juvenile Crime
4. The Institutions of Juvenile Justice
Part 2: The Social Dynamics of Juvenile Justice
5. Class and Community
6. Indigenous Young People
7. Ethnic Minority Young People
8. Young Women, Young Men and Gender
Part 3: The State, Punishment and Community
9. Policing the Young
10. Courts and Sentencing Processes
11. Detention and Community Corrections
12. Youth Crime Prevention
13. Restorative Justice and Juvenile Conferencing