Family Life and Youth Offending
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Family Life and Youth Offending

Home is Where the Hurt is

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Family Life and Youth Offending

Home is Where the Hurt is

About this book

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal justice system, but this book examines how this evidence can be used to prevent offending in the first place.

Examining the relationship between the causes of youth offending and the legal duty of the state to address those causes, this book provides evidence to show that improving the family environment could be the most effective and enduring strategy for combating juvenile delinquency and associated behavioural, social and emotional problems. It examines how current child welfare legislation, in particular the Children Act 1989, could be employed to prevent children who are at risk of engaging in antisocial and delinquent behaviour from offending. It abandons the traditional 'welfare vs. justice' dichotomy and instead outlines a new approach which focuses on the rights and needs of young people in troubled circumstances and their families.

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Yes, you can access Family Life and Youth Offending by Raymond Arthur in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias sociales & Criminología. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780415408448
eBook ISBN
9781134132751

Table of contents

  1. Routledge advances in criminology
  2. Contents
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 Family life and youth offending
  5. 3 Role of the local authority in preventing youth crime
  6. 4 Young people at risk of offending
  7. 5 Local authorities’ interpretation of their youth crime prevention duties
  8. 6 Enforcing the role of local authorities in preventing youth crime
  9. 7 Conclusion
  10. Notes
  11. References
  12. Index