Understanding Youth Offending : Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice


Stephen. Case
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (361 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Understanding Youth Offending; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction: risk factor research; The influence of risk factors; The risk with risk; Thinking about and researching risk; Chapter synopses; 1 Examining the unresolved methodological paradoxes of risk factor research; Exploring the unresolved methodological paradoxes of RFR; The paradox of simplistic over-simplification; The paradox of definitive indefinity; The paradox of the risk-dependent protective factor; The paradox of replicable incomparability. - 3 Longitudinal risk factor research in England and Wales - achievements, limitations and potentialThe Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development; The Offending, Crime and Justice Survey; Social Contexts of Pathways Into Crime; Pathways Into and Out of Crime: Risk, Resilience and Diversity; The Teesside Studies; Conclusion: longitudinal risk factor research in England and Wales revisited; 4 Cross-sectional risk factor research in England and Wales - achievements, limitations and potential; The Home Office Youth Lifestyles Survey; Youth at Risk: the Communities that Care National Youth Survey. - Crime in the making: the emergence of risk-focused life course criminologyThe ecological approach: the importance of socio-structural risk factors; Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: the revised age-graded theory of social control; The pathways approach: experiencing and negotiating risk in the socio-structural context; Integrated theories: making sense of risk factor research?; The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential theory; The Developmental Ecological Action Theory of Crime Involvement; The evolution of risk factor research. - Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: exploring risk from birth. - The Promoting Prevention evaluationThe On Track Youth Lifestyles Survey; The Youth Justice Board Risk and Protective Factors review and the Role of Risk and Protective Factors study; Conclusion: cross-sectional risk factor research in England and Wales revisited; 5 Hunting for the universal risk factor; Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime; Antisocial Behaviour by Young People; Globally flawed?; The International Self-Reported Delinquency study: standardised RFR and universal risk factors; The Causes and Correlates Studies: universalised risk across the US. - The paradox of unconstructive constructivismThe paradox of heterogeneous homogeneity; Conclusion: the unresolved methodological paradoxes of RFR; 2 The origins and development of risk factor research; Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck: the originators of risk-focused, developmental criminology; The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study: early risk-focused, developmental crime prevention; The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development: establishing developmental criminology and risk factor research; Criminals coming of age; The Social Development Model. - This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the part of critical criminologists and others, about the theoretical, epistemological, methodological and ethical bases of risk-focused research with young people. They have pointed particularly to the overly-deterministic and prescriptive nature of the risk factor paradi
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9781843923411. - 9781843923428

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