Youth Justice in Context - Community, Compliance and Young People

Informationen zum Autor Mairéad Seymour is a senior lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Her research interests include youth crime and justice, comparative youth justice, offender compliance and community sanctions. Klappentext This book offers a fresh way of considering compliance in the youth justice system, drawing on examples from youth justice systems around the world and considering the social context of community-based disposals for young offenders. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fresh way of considering compliance in the youth justice system, drawing on examples from youth justice systems around the world and considering the social context of community-based disposals for young offenders. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Responding to non-compliance with the requirements of community disposals 3. Compliance theory, research and practice 4. The context of community supervision: adolescent development and social circumstances 5. The social and criminal justice context of supervising young offenders 6. Constructing compliance on offender supervision 7. Promoting compliance and responding to non compliance 8. Young people's perspectives on the supervision process 9. Young people's perspectives on transition, change and desistance 10. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Mairead Seymour, Mairéad Seymour
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780415667920
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66792-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Society & culture: general, Health & personal development, Social Work, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Criminal justice law, Juvenile Criminal Law