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  • Developments in Social Work with Offenders

    by Peter Raynor, Iain Crow, James Bonta, Gill McIvor, Tim Chapman, Gwen Robinson, Chris Trotter, Maurice Vanstone, Steve Wormith, Bill Whyte, James McGuire, David O\''Mahony, Shadd Maruna, Sam Lewis, Sue Rex, Frank Porporino, Fergus McNeill, David O'Mahony, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Barry Goldson ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

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  • The Guilty Innocent

    by Shannon Adamcik ...
    The United States is the only country in the world that will charge a juvenile as an adult and sentence them to life without parole. As the mother of one such child, I know exactly what happens when a juvenile is placed in adult court where they cannot defend themselves. They are immediately cut off from all human contact, locked in isolation, and railroaded through a justice system they simply ... Read more

    $7.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Chance in Texas

    The Redemption of Criminal Youth

    by John Hubner ...
    A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that ran the most aggressive–and one of the most successful–treatment programs for violent young offenders in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Kids for Cash

    Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

    by William Ecenbarger ...
    The shocking true story of corrupt judges who made millions by sending children to a private juvenile detention facility: "A harrowing tale, lucidly told" ( The New York Times Book Review).In this sensational work of true crime that reads like a thriller, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter William Ecenbarger exposes a long-running scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. In Luzerne County, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine

    Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

    by David Chura ...
    Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Paranoia & Heartbreak

    Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility

    by Jerome Gold ...
    For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Young Offenders

    Juvenile Delinquency from 1700 to 2000

    by Pamela Horn ...
    In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examines the way in which attitudes - and the law itself - have evolved in dealing with juvenile wrongdoing from the early eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. By the use of court and prison records, parliamentary papers, newspapers, the writings ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo

    The D.C. Sniper

    by Carmeta Albarus, Jonathan H. Mack ...
    "The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book."— The AtlanticIn October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Grade US History: The First President

    1st Grade Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's US Presidents & First Ladies
    History is a rich yet oftentimes boring subject. If you want your child to appreciate the past, then you have to work to give him/her the right resources. School textbooks can be a bore with their texts and dull pictures. Whereas, this educational book features illustrations in full colors that speak more than written words would. Secure a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy

    by Mark A. Drumbl ...
    The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes. But this pernicious practice persists. It may shift locally, but it endures globally. Preventative measures therefore remain inadequate. Former child soldiers experience challenges readjusting to civilian life. Reintegration is complex and eventful. The homecoming is only the beginning. Reconciliation ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Delinquency Theories

    Appraisals and applications

    by John Hoffmann ...
    Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and applications provides a fulsome and accessible overview of contemporary theories of juvenile delinquency.The book opens with a comprehensive description of what a theory is, and explains how theories are created in the social sciences. Following on, each subsequent chapter is dedicated to describing an individual theory, broken down and illustrated within four ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Restorative Justice in Urban Schools

    Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    by Anita Wadhwa ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
    The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative justice to build positive school cultures and address disciplinary problems in a more corrective and less punitive manner. Looking at the school ... Read more

    $59.99 USD