(DOWNLOAD) "Understanding Youth Crime" by Mark Lynch & John S. Western # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Understanding Youth Crime
- Author : Mark Lynch & John S. Western
- Release Date : January 12, 2017
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3691 KB
Description
This title was first published in 2003. Adolescence is popularly understood as a transitional phase of turbulence and extremes. It is also often associated with 'trouble'. Criminal justice statistics, however, reveal that youth criminality remains a relatively rare phenomenon, less than one percent of the total adolescent population in any given year. This exceptional book is based upon a major Australian research programme to consider the key social factors impacting upon the lives of young people. A sample of 1,300 young people was divided into three major subgroups: a 'control' group, drawn from state secondary schools and closely approximating the general population; a chronically marginalized cohort representing a 'vulnerable group', and a group of offenders, most of whom were incarcerated at the time of the research. With its rich data source and highly integrated structure, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of adolescent criminality and associated policy both in Australia and internationally.