Youth and Crime

by John Muncie

The Third Edition of this definitive, best-selling text offers the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of youth and crime available. Two new chapters on Youth Victimology and Comparative and International Youth Justice have been added to provide critical analysis of issues such as institutional abuse, child trafficking, international children′s rights, and transnational policy transfer. The book also includes new material on antisocial behavior orders (ASBOs), gangs, gun and knife crime, early intervention initiatives, the respect agenda, restorative justice, and child imprisonment.

Genres: Social Science, Psychology, Nonfiction

488 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

aka John Jaffe (with Jody Jaffe).

Research Interests:
Critical criminology, comparative youth justice, crime, harm and social policy.

Since 2003 he's been a Director of The Open University International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR).

Reviews

[Chrisv]

I'm using this as core text for a module (political discourse) for my degree. It's pretty helpful, and for a first eTextbook, I'm pretty impressed.
Has anyone else used this book for uni? What about from an ereader? (FYI - I use http://www.blikbook.com as my ebook provider - if anyone's has used this I'd appreciate reading about your experience on that too!)