The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been proce…
"Family Life and Youth Offending examines the relationship between the causes of youth offending and the legal duty of the state to address those causes. In his globally relevant new study Arthur provides the evidence that improving the family environment could be the most effec…
This key book examines how we can prevent children from engaging in offending behaviour and therefore prevent the pre-school children of today from influencing the crime statistics of tomorrow.
"Family Life and Youth Offending examines the relationship between the causes of youth offending and the legal duty of the state to address those causes. In his globally relevant new study Arthur provides the evidence that improving the family environment could be the most effec…
Concerning itself with the place of communication in the troubled relations between the police and young people, this text presents a critique of managerialism and, from the perspective of critical theory, outlines an alternative way of thinking about policing.
