Young Adult Offenders: Lost in Transition?

by Losel; Friedrich

• ISBN13: 9781843922711
• ISBN10: 1843922711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-22
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This volume focuses on young adults and treatment in the UK criminal justice system. Young adults, aged 18-21, are at the peak age for offending, but they have been neglected in comparison with youth under 18. There are few programs designed especially fo

Author Biography

Friedrich Lsel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Sir Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield. David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. ix
Contributor biographies	p. x
Foreword	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Young adult offenders in juvenile and criminal justice systems in Europe	p. 11
Youth, alcohol and aggression	p. 39
Childhood risk factors for young adult offending: onset and persistence	p. 48
Young adult offenders in custodial institutions: vulnerability, relationships and risks	p. 65
What works in correctional treatment and rehabilitation for young adults?	p. 74
Young women in transition: from offending to desistance	p. 113
Perceptions of the criminal justice system among young adult would-be desisters	p. 128
Lost in transition? A view from the Youth Justice Board	p. 146
Young adults in the English criminal justice system: the policy challenges	p. 155
Index	p. 170
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