Pathways to Adolescent Male Violent Offending

This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those who become involved in violent offending and organized crime.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Adolescent offending profiles
Chapter 2 Substance use and drug offenses
Chapter 3 Expressive violence
Chapter 4 Knife crime
Chapter 5 Sensation seeking
Chapter 6 Acquisitive offending
Chapter 7 Criminal groups and exploitation
Conclusion

About the author

Sally-Ann Ashton works as a Research Scientist at the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University, USA. Her PhD from the University of Huddersfield explored the social and psychological risk associated with gang membership and desistance. She has continued to research co-offending, youth gang membership, knife crime, and child criminal exploitation in England with a view to early identification of vulnerable adolescents and diversion from the criminal justice system.

Summary

This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those who become involved in violent offending and organized crime.

Product details

• Authors: Sally-Ann Ashton, Ashton Sally-Ann
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032186771
• ISBN: 978-1-032-18677-1
• No. of pages: 126
• Weight: 180 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Organized crime, Criminal or forensic psychology, Legal aspects of criminology, Groups & group theory, Juvenile offenders, Criminology: legal aspects, Groups and group theory, Juvenile Criminal Law