Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice

by Kevin Haines, Steve Case, Stephen Case

This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the part of critical criminologists and others, about the theoretical, epistemological, methodological and ethical bases of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843923416
• ISBN13: 9781843923411
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"