A three-volume set of readings designed to reveal a range of crime control strategies typically encountered in criminal justice systems worldwide. It outlines the varied competing conceptions of justice in national and international settings. It explores the varied means of punishment and correction that make up the penal landscape.

Now in its third edition, this definitive best-seller offers the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of youth and crime available.

Examines and compares youth justice systems around the world. This book also examines how youth justice is implemented in practice with a view to promoting change as well as reflection. It includes chapters which addresses the degree of compliance with international law; the extent of repenalistion; adulteration; and, tolerance.

This fully revised and updated Second Edition of the bestselling text offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in the study of crime.

This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences.

Aims to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches, this work illuminates the different ways in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled.

This 3 volume set of original (classic and contemporary) readings is designed to reveal how and why children and young people have been repeatedly the subject of adult concern, censure and intervention.

An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how the family is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life.

Meant for those who teach, study or are interested in criminology and the criminal justice systems of the UK. This book offers a critical introduction and considers issues in criminal justice, focusing on conceptions of crime and conflict resolutions, as well as introducing to researching criminal justice.

Examines and compares youth justice systems around the world. This book also examines how youth justice is implemented in practice with a view to promoting change as well as reflection. It includes chapters which addresses the degree of compliance with international law; the extent of repenalistion; adulteration; and, tolerance.

This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences.

A three-volume set that is a reference tool for criminology and criminal justice students, researchers and practitioners worldwide. This book presents a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary pieces that define the study of crime. It provides access to the debates and disputes within the academic study of crime as they have emerged.

Now in its third edition, this definitive best-seller offers the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of youth and crime available.

Problem of Crime

Aims to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches, this work illuminates the different ways in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled.