Delinquency Books

New and Published Books

1. Subcultures: The Basics

   By Ross Haenfler

   Series: The Basics

   Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible, engaging introduction to youth cultures in a global context. Blending theory and practice to examine a range of subcultural movements including hip hop in Japan, global graffiti writing crews, heavy metal in Europe and straight edge movements in the USA,...

   Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Offending Girls

   Young Women and Youth Justice

   By Gilly Sharpe

   At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Willan
3. Serial Killers

   Psychiatry, Criminology and Responsibility

   By Francesca Biagi-Chai

   Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...

   Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Why We Take Drugs

   Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World

   By Tom Yardley

   In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled. In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the institutions of society have washed...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Family Life and Youth Offending

   Home is Where the Hurt is

   By Raymond Arthur

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. 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...

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. Youth in Crisis?

   'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

   Edited by Barry Goldson

   Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term 'gang' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban...

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. A New Response to Youth Crime

   Edited by David Smith

   Antisocial and criminal behaviour involving children and young people have been a cause of heightened public concern in England and Wales for more than a quarter of a century. It has been the subject of numerous policy papers, research studies and academic assessments as well as extensive newspaper...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Willan
9. Deception

   A Young Person's Life Skill?

   By Rachel Taylor, Lynsey Gozna

   Series: Studies in Adolescent Development

   This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Psychology Press
10. Lifers

    Seeking Redemption in Prison

    By John Irwin

    Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

    John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty...

    Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge