Young Offenders: Juvenile Delinquency, 1700-2000

by Pamela Horn

In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examines the way in which attitudes - and the law itself - have evolved in dealing with juvenile wrongdoing from the early eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. By the use of court and prison records, parliamentary papers, newspapers, the writings of reformers and other records, such as those covering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848688806
• ISBN13: 9781848688803
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"