Roger Smith

Diversion in Youth Justice (eBook, PDF)

What Can We Learn from Historical and Contemporary Practices?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the emergence and development of youth diversion within the justice system, discusses its models of practice and offers some theoretical conclusions about its relationship with sociological and criminological trends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315522241
• Artikelnr.: 49986470

Autorenporträt

Roger Smith is Professor of Social Work at Durham University, UK. As a practitioner, and in a senior policy role, he specialised in youth justice, and he has pursued this area of interest in his academic research and writing (including the well-known book Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice). He has also been involved in research and publications on a wider range of subjects, including childhood (A Universal Child), social work and power (Social Work and Power), participatory methods and social work education, and he retains a continuing interest in researching and promoting children's rights in practice (Social Work with Young People).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Theorising Youth Diversion
2. The Origins and Emergence of Diversion
3. Diversion: Development and Doubt
4. Diversion Renewed
5. Diversion
Dangerousness and the 'Risky Child'
6. Another 'U' Turn? Diversion and Community Justice
7. Modelling Diversion
8. Diversion and Youth Justice: Meanings and Possibilities
References