From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention write by Rolf Loeber. This book was released on 2012-05-09. From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? What defines-cognitively, developmentally, legally-the transition from juvenile to adult and what determines whether patterns of criminal behavior persist? In most US states and Western nations, legal adulthood begins at age 18. This volume focuses on the period surrounding that abrupt transition (roughly ages 15-29) and addresses what happens to offending careers during it. Edited by two leading authorities in the fields of psychology and criminology, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime examines why the period of transition is important and how it can be better understood and addressed both inside and outside of the justice system. Bringing together over thirty leading scholars from multiple disciplines in both North America and Europe, this volume asks critical questions about criminal careers and causation, and whether current legal definitions of adulthood accurately reflect actual maturation and development. The volume also addresses the current efficacy of the justice system in addressing juvenile crime and recidivism, why and how juveniles ought to be treated differently from adults, if special legal provisions should be established for young adults, and the effectiveness of crime prevention programs implemented during early childhood and adolescence. With serious scholarly analysis and practical policy proposals, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime addresses what can be done to ensure that todays juvenile delinquents do not become tomorrows adult criminals.
Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime
Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime write by Rolf Loeber. This book was released on 2012. Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Young Adult Offenders
Young Adult Offenders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Young Adult Offenders write by Friedrich Lösel. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Young Adult Offenders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies. For example, important developmental tasks such as finishing one’s education, finding regular work and the foundation of one’s own family are now completed later than in former times; neuropsychological brain functions are still developing beyond age 18; and desistance from criminal offending occurs most rapidly in early adulthood. Despite such evidence, the United Kingdom and other countries have largely neglected policies for young adult offenders in comparison with young people under 18. Although there seems to be no general transnational solution for this problem, there is a clear need for differentiation. This book brings together leading authorities in the field to analyse theoretical, empirical and policy issues relating to this neglected group of people, exploring different approaches to both crime prevention and offender treatment. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, prisons, probation, forensic psychology and psychiatry, sociology, education and social work.
Persisters and Desisters in Crime from Adolescence into Adulthood
Persisters and Desisters in Crime from Adolescence into Adulthood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persisters and Desisters in Crime from Adolescence into Adulthood write by Machteld Hoeve. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Persisters and Desisters in Crime from Adolescence into Adulthood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Too many juvenile delinquents persist in their offending into adulthood. They constitute a major burden for individual victims, for businesses and the justice system, all contributing to the total cost of crime for society. Focusing on the transition between juvenile offending and adult crime, this book examines research based on Dutch, European and North-American studies on the persistence and discontinuity of offending between late adolescence and early adulthood. Presenting empirical studies showing why persistence or discontinuity take place, the book provides up-to-date information on preventive and remedial interventions to promote discontinuity of offending amongst young adults. From the same team who produced 'Tomorrow's Criminals', this book will be a valuable resource for criminologists, criminal justice professionals, psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists interested in juvenile and young adult offenders, as well as those interested in what makes career criminals and youth who reform.
Desistance from Crime
Desistance from Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desistance from Crime write by Michael Rocque. This book was released on 2017-04-25. Desistance from Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go unanswered. Rocque covers the history of research on desistance from crime and provides a discussion of research and theories on the topic before looking towards the future of the application of desistance to policy. The focus of the volume is to provide an overview of the practical and theoretical developments to better understand desistance. In addition, a multidisciplinary, integrative theoretical perspective is presented, ensuring that it will be of particular interest for students and scholars of criminology and the criminal justice system.
