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.
"The results of their national study will surprise man legislative and youth service policy professionals. Agency characteristics, service delivery patterns, and youth clients can indeed reflect the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales, but in ways that have littl…
"Responding to Troubled Youth considers the current theories and practices in handling status offenders - those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. How does society deal with status…
"This book provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school to prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice involved youth in regular …
"This book provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school to prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice involved youth in regular …