Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice - Hardcover

Case, Stephen; Haines, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843923424 ISBN 13: 9781843923428

Publisher: Willan, 2009

Synopsis

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 risk-focused research with young people. They have pointed particularly to the overly-deterministic and prescriptive nature of the risk factor paradigm.

This book aims to meet the need for an exploration of youth justice and youth offending which takes account of the origins and contemporary manifestations of risk-focused work with young people. It analyses the influence of concepts of risk upon policy development in both England and Wales as well as internationally, highlighting tensions between the proponents of risk factor research and methodological and ethical criticisms of the risk factor paradigm. It will be essential reading for anybody wishing to understand risk factor explanation of crime, contemporary youth justice policy and responses to offending behaviour.

About this title

Product Description:

This volume explores the connections between the informal economy and organised crime. It poses the question of whether countries' national social and economic policies affect the form and extent of their informal economies and the extent and nature of connections with organised crime. Each of the papers has drawn upon empirical work in the countries involved (Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, transition countries in central and eastern Europe, Georgia, the Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Serbia). Together, they provide important new pointers to the ways in which states, often inadvertently, mould and shape their informal economies through their legislative, regulatory and enforcement policies.

Review:

'This text is important reading for researchers and practitioners in the areas of youth offending, risk factorisation and in more general terms of theoretical and methodological perspectives.'
-Bethany Alden, Open University in Youth & Policy, no 107

About this edition

• Publisher: Willan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1843923424
• ISBN 13: 9781843923428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368