10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YOUTH CRIME»
Discover the use of
youth crime in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
youth crime and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This new edition keeps the reader up to date on a wide range of contemporary debates and covers all the essentials required in studying the topic of youth and crime at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Youth Crime and Justice
This book, along with its companion volume Comparative Youth Justice (edited by John Muncie and Barry Goldson) , will significantly advance the development of an emerging 'youth criminology'.
Barry Goldson, John Muncie, 2006
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Mean Streets:
Youth Crime and Homelessness
This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver.
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Responding to
Youth Crime in Canada
Responding to Youth Crime in Canada enormously, for its competence and thoroughness, of course, but also for its political message.'
Anthony N. Doob, Carla Cesaroni, 2004
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"Getting Paid":
Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City
Depicts the attitudes of young criminals, and looks at those who are able to move out of street crime into legitimate work.
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Understanding
Youth And
Crime: Listening to
Youth?
This book provides a useful and challenging overview of the topic for undergraduate students." The Times Higher Education Supplement This book is an accessible introduction to the subject of youth and crime.
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Youth Crime and
Youth Culture in the Inner City
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime.
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Responding to
Youth Crime: Towards Radical Criminal Justice ...
This book presents a critique of the traditional responses to youth crime by criminal justice agencies in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and a vision of how these agencies could respond more effectively.
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A New Response to
Youth Crime
As an accompaniment to the Report of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour (2010), this book takes a new look at the problem of youth offending and government, and examines society's response to this.
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Language of the Gun:
Youth,
Crime, and Public Policy
In Language of the Gun, Bernard E. Harcourt recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-malecorrectional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in a broader attempt to understand ...
Bernard E. Harcourt, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «YOUTH CRIME»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
youth crime is used in the context of the following news items.
Police boss who created Britain's first youth crime commissioner …
A police commissioner who created Britain's first youth crime tsars is set to drop the post after the role became mired in controversy. Kent police and crime ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
Study: Fall in Texas Youth Crime Linked to Cut in Jail Rates
A new study concludes that the Texas juvenile justice system's shift away from housing youths in state-run detention facilities has coincided with a sharp drop in ... «NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Jan 15»
Minnesota efforts against youth crime commended
Even so, says a new report that quantifies the costs of juvenile incarceration, the ... in juvenile crime nationwide, incarceration of the country's nonviolent youth ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dec 14»
Kent youth crime commissioner suspended after 'close friendship'
A youth crime commissioner in Kent, Kerry Boyd, 20, has been suspended after she admitted having a 'close friendship' with a married former Conservative ... «The Guardian, Jun 14»
Scottish crime rates fall as police 'exceed expectations'
Scottish police are "exceeding expectations" as crime continues to fall, according to figures released by the Scottish government. Youth crime fell by 22% in the ... «BBC News, Nov 13»
Youth crime already falling, even before tough new laws
Mr Bleijie campaigned heavily on the 'tough on crime' line before the election. He said the laws, which will also mean juvenile histories can be submitted in adult ... «Brisbane Times, Sep 13»
Morning Chat: Violent youth crime: should more be done?
Is our current justice system adequate for dealing with youth who commit violent crime? Should our system be changed? Why do you think we're seeing young ... «CBC.ca, Sep 13»
As Youth Crime Spikes, Brazil Struggles For Answers
In Rio de Janeiro, tourists are drawn to Copacabana for its wide beach and foliage-covered cliffs. But a month ago, not far from the tourist hub, an American ... «NPR, Apr 13»
Paris Brown: Foul-mouthed youth commissioner who quit over …
Paris Brown,the foul-mouthed youth crime commissioner who was forced to quit after her string of offensive Tweets, has been interviewed under caution about ... «Daily Mail, Apr 13»
Youth Crime Commissioner's Tweets Investigated
Police are investigating whether Britain's first youth crime commissioner broke the law by posting a string of offensive comments on Twitter. Paris Brown, 17 ... «Sky News, Apr 13»
