Juvenile Justice

Youth and Crime in Australia
2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-551223-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten

This work explores the nature of juvenile crime and the responses of the juvenile justice system.Part I History, theory, and institutions: the development of juvenile justice; theories of juvenile offending; the nature of contemporary juvenile crime; the institutions of juvenile justice. Part II The social dynamics of juvenile justice: class and community; indigenous young people; ethnic minority young people; young women, young men, and gender. Part III The state, punishment and community: policing the young; courts and sentencing processes; detention and community corrections; youth crime prevention; restorative justice and juvenile conferencing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Über Autor(innen)

(Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia)