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Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Gender, drugs and street life explores the way girls and boys of white British origin access and participate in legal and illegal drugs, within the context of supply at the local level. It explores the relationship of children and young people to the local drug market from a gendered...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Willan
The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second edition in 2007.The book maintains its...
To Be Published November 26th 2013 by Routledge
Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction is the first textbook on contemporary social issues to contextualise social problems within the disciplines of sociology, social policy, criminology and applied social science. Drawing on the research and teaching experience of academics in these areas,...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Addressing the intricacies and diversities of street gangs, a major and growing blight across the country, this book draws on the expertise of high-ranking law enforcement officials monitoring terrorist activity and gang-related crimes as well as professional private investigators who have spent...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by CRC Press
Now over ten years since the publication of Peter Squires’ Gun Culture or Gun Control?, the issues and developments pertaining to guns violence and gun control have changed drastically. Indeed, the gap between the UK and the US in their attitudes and experience of gun culture has grown and a number...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology
Whilst there are many books looking at forensic practice in secure settings such as prisons or hospitals, very little has been written about forensic work in the community, such as individual’s homes or in Probation or Youth Offending settings around the country. The developments vary from...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
The ways in which a society responds to the delinquent and criminal behavior of young people reveals much about its broader cultural values and political affairs. Specifically, it illuminates the particular form of state governance and governing mentality. This book examines responses to youth...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
This book describes the results of over two years in the field conducting ethnographic research on youth gangs in an English city. It traces the emergence and evolution of street gangs in various areas of the city, with a particular focus on the features of these groups (including...
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?This book offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and considers why violence occurs so often in...
To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Key Ideas in Criminology
Re-imagining Juvenile Justice explores major concepts, issues, debates and controversies in the field of juvenile justice both nationally and internationally. It seeks to fundamentally reconceptualise or, as the title implies, ‘re-imagine’ juvenile justice. The book historicises contemporary...
To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
