Young Criminal Lives

Author : Barry S. Godfrey,Pamela Cox,Heather Shore,Zoe Alker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198788492

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Young Criminal Lives by Barry S. Godfrey,Pamela Cox,Heather Shore,Zoe Alker Pdf

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system. The book breaks new ground in crime research, speaking to pressing present-day concerns around child poverty and youth justice, and resonating with a powerful public fascination for family history. Using innovative digital methods to unlock the Victorian life course, the authors have reconstructed the lives, families and neighbourhoods of 500 children living within, or at the margins of, the early English juvenile reformatory system. Four hundred of them were sent to reformatory and industrial schools in the north west of England from courts around the UK over a fifty-year period from the 1860s onwards. Young Criminal Lives is based on one of the most comprehensive sets of official and personal data ever assembled for a historical study of this kind. For the first time, these children can be followed on their journey in and out of reform and then though their adulthood and old age. The book centres on institutions celebrated in this period for their pioneering new approaches to child welfare and others that were investigated for cruelty and scandal. Both were typical of the new kind of state-certified provision offered, from the 1850s on, to children who had committed criminal acts, or who were considered 'vulnerable' to predation, poverty and the 'inheritance' of criminal dispositions. The notion that interventions can and must be evaluated in order to determine 'what works' now dominates public policy. But how did Victorian and Edwardian policy-makers and practitioners deal with this question? By what criteria, and on the basis of what kinds of evidence, did they judge their own successes and failures? Young Criminal Lives ends with a critical review of the historical rise of evidence-based policy-making within criminal justice. It will appeal to scholars and students of crime and penal policy, criminologists, sociologists, and social policy researchers and practitioners in youth justice and child protection.

Author : M. Halsey,S. Deegan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349489204

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Young Offenders by M. Halsey,S. Deegan Pdf

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment. Through rich interview data of young offenders over a ten year period, this book explores the complex personal and situational factors that promote and derail the desistance process.

Author : Raymond Corrado,John Whatley,Patrick Lussier,Alan D Leschied
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : 0864913737

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Serious and Violent Young Offenders and Youth Criminal Justice by Raymond Corrado,John Whatley,Patrick Lussier,Alan D Leschied Pdf

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136681035

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Doing Justice to Young People by Roger Smith Pdf

There is an impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice, represented by punitive and harmful practices, and liberal objections to these processes on the other, based predominantly on arguments for ‘rehabilitation’. This book aims to arrive at an alternative strategy for resolving the tensions between young people – especially those on and beyond the margins – and the social world which frames their lives. The book is split into three sections: Part 1 focuses on young people, their attitudes and behaviour; Part 2 considers the way in which their behaviour is constructed as criminal and then addressed; Part 3 considers the limitations of current practices and potential alternatives. Within this broad framework, the differentiated and contested nature of young people’s experiences and our (and their) ideas of ‘youth’ can be counterposed to prevailing one-sided and often discriminatory assumptions about them; in order then to open up questions about the nature and purposes of the youth justice system, and to introduce some possibilities for reconstructing it according to fundamental principles of rights, welfare and social justice. Doing Justice to Young People will be essential reading for anybody working in or studying youth crime and youth justice.

Author : Qasim, Mohammed
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447341512

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Young, Muslim and Criminal by Qasim, Mohammed Pdf

In recent years there has been significant negative attention towards young British male Muslims, who are perceived to be increasingly dangerous and criminal. However, very little is known about those who offend, as few studies have attempted to understand their lived experience. After spending four years with a group of young British Pakistani Muslim men who were involved in a range of offending behaviours, Qasim gained unique first-hand insight into their multifaceted lives. In this book he unwraps their lives, taking into account their socio-economic situation, the make-up of their community, cultural and religious influences which impacted on them and their involvement in crime. He explores their identities and explains what role, if any, religion and Pakistani culture play in their criminal behaviour. With a focus on the apparent link with gun crime and drug dealing, this important book exposes the complex nature of the young men’s pathways into crime.

Author : Mandy Burton,Steven Cammiss,Andrew Sanders,Richard Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199675142

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Sanders and Young's Criminal Justice by Mandy Burton,Steven Cammiss,Andrew Sanders,Richard Young Pdf

'Sanders and Young's Criminal Justice' is an engaging account and a rigorous critique of the criminal justice system, drawing on a wide breadth of research in the field.

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : One World
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399588181

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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525582168

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir. “A piercing reminder that every mad life--even yours--could end up a masterpiece." --JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling author We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them as people. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government. In a country where racism barred blacks from social, educational, and economic opportunity, Trevor surmounted staggering obstacles and created a promising future for himself thanks to his mom’s unwavering love and indomitable will. This honest and poignant memoir adapted from the #1 New York Times bestseller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood will astound and inspire readers as well as offer a fascinating perspective on South Africa’s tumultuous racial history. BORN A CRIME IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING OSCAR WINNER LUPITA NYONG'O!

Author : Barry S. Godfrey,David J. Cox,Stephen Farrall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015069316316

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Criminal Lives by Barry S. Godfrey,David J. Cox,Stephen Farrall Pdf

There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are becoming much more frequent. However, published work which uses historical data to this extent is rare. Criminal Lives uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates and engages a wide audience in a genuinely interdisciplinary analysis. This book addresses a number of important questions about offenders' persistence in, or distance from, crime and questions the current theoretical frameworks that are given to explain why some people stop, or slow down, their offending, and why offenders' children become involved in crime. By using criminal registers, census material, and newspaper reports from 1880 -1940 for one industrial town in North-West England, this book asks how and why did some people stop offending, what part did employment, relationship formation, and family responsibility play in that process; was criminality passed on from parent to child, and if so, how; and to what extent were persistent offenders also persistent victims?

Author : Helen Campbell,Thomas Wallace Knox,Thomas Byrnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Charities
ISBN : MINN:31951001040221T

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Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life by Helen Campbell,Thomas Wallace Knox,Thomas Byrnes Pdf

Author : Ben Crewe,Susie Hulley,Serena Wright
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566010

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Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood by Ben Crewe,Susie Hulley,Serena Wright Pdf

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various challenges that they encounter and re-construct their lives within and beyond the prison. Focussing on such matters as personal identity, relationships with family and friends, and the management of time, the book argues that long-term imprisonment entails a profound confrontation with the self. It provides detailed insight into how such prisoners deal with the everyday burdens of their situation, feelings of injustice, anger and shame, and the need to find some sense of hope, control and meaning in their lives. In doing so, it exposes the nature and consequences of the life-changing terms of imprisonment that have become increasingly common in recent years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : PRNC:32101065272633

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Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Conference on Social Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Charities
ISBN : UCAL:B3330992

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Proceedings by National Conference on Social Welfare Pdf

Author : Kevin N. Wright,Karen E. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017438865

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Family Life, Delinquency and Crime by Kevin N. Wright,Karen E. Wright Pdf

Describes how positive parental involvement deters delinquent behavior while its absence -- or worse, its negative counterpart -- fosters misconduct. Researchers conclude that children raised in supportive, affectionate, and accepting homes are less likely to become deviant.

Author : Victor M. Rios
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814776377

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Punished by Victor M. Rios Pdf

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing.Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men, who now face punitive policies in their schools, communities, and a world where they are constantly policed and stigmatized. Rios followed a group of forty delinquent Black and Latino boys for three years. These boys found themselves in a vicious cycle, caught in a spiral of punishment and incarceration as they were harassed, profiled, watched, and disciplined at young ages, even before they had committed any crimes, eventually leading many of them to fulfill the destiny expected of them. But beyond a fatalistic account of these marginalized young men, Rios finds that the very system that criminalizes them and limits their opportunities, sparks resistance and a raised consciousness that motivates some to transform their lives and become productive citizens. Ultimately, he argues that by understanding the lives of the young men who are criminalized and pipelined through the criminal justice system, we can begin to develop empathic solutions which support these young men in their development and to eliminate the culture of punishment that has become an overbearing part of their everyday lives.