Stephen Case, Kevin Haines

Understanding Youth Offending

Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to meet the need for an exploration of youth justice and youth offending which takes account of the origins and contemporary manifestations of risk-focused work with young people. It analyzes the influence of concepts of risk upon policy development in both England and Wales as well as internationally, highlighting tensions between the proponents of risk factor research and methodological and ethical criticisms of the risk factor paradigm. It will be essential reading for anybody wishing to understand risk factor explanation of crime, contemporary youth justice policy and responses to offending behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781843923428
• ISBN-10: 1843923424
• Artikelnr.: 24976128

Autorenporträt

Stephen Case is Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Swansea University. Kevin Haines is Reader in Youth Justice and Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology Swansea University. Both have written extensively in the field of youth justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Risk Factor Research 1. Examining the Unresolved
Methodological Paradoxes of Risk Factor Research 2. The Origins and
Development of Risk Factor Research 3. Longitudinal Risk Factor Research in
England and Wales - Achievements, Limitations and Potential 4.
Cross-sectional Risk Factor Research in England and Wales - Achievements,
limitations and Potential 5. Hunting for the Universal Risk Factor 6. Risk
Assessment in the Youth Justice System: Application without Understanding?
7. Re-visiting Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice