Youth Offending in Context: Challenges and Solutions
About this ebook
Supporting readers to evaluate traditional understandings and responses to youth offending, this critical, evidence-based text engages with a variety of international case studies, practice examples and expert perspectives from academic researchers in the field.
Delving into theoretical, conceptual, empirical, policy and practice issues, Youth Offending in Context will be of great value to students of youth justice, youth offending, youth crime, crime prevention, and criminal justice.
About the author
Stephen Case is Professor of Youth Justice at Loughborough University. His research and scholarship has focused on the promotion of positive, ‘children first’, rights-based and anti-risk management approaches to working with children in conflict with the law. He has published numerous books including Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction (Case 2021 – Routledge), Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second (Haines and Case 2015) and Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice (Case and Haines 2009 – Routledge).
