Joanna, Et Shapland Stephen Farrall Anthony Bottoms
In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop the process of desistance. There are now around a dozen major longitudinal and in-depth studies around the world which have followed or are following offenders over their life course, charting their offending history and their social and economic circumstances.
The book is the first to offer a global perspective on desistance and brings together international leading experts in the field from countries including the UK, the Netherlands, Scandinavia,...
In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop the proces...
This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and comes at an important moment of change and development for the probation service in the UK. Unlike previous studies which have relied mostly on official data, this book makes use of over 200 interviews with men and women on probation, and their supervising Probation Officers. Rethinking What Works with Offenders has the following objectives: to understand probation work from the perspectives of those who deliver it...
This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of ...
A study of the termination of criminal careers. It focuses upon initial explorations into the topic, the most common findings, the cessation of offending by specific offender-types and theoretical matters. An introductory essay by the editor provides an overview of work in this area.
A study of the termination of criminal careers. It focuses upon initial explorations into the topic, the most common findings, the cessation of offend...
The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced decline in crime rates. While there have been many studies on the topic, this book argues that the current crime drop literature relies too heavily on a single methodological approach, and in turn, provides a new method for examining the falling rates of crime, based on ideas from political science and comparative historical social science. Farrall's original new research forwards an understanding of trends in crime and responses to them by...
The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced d...
