This book provides an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly on risk-focused approaches which have underpinned recent academic research, youth justice policy, and interventions all designed to reduce and prevent problem behavior. 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 ...
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This book provides an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly on risk-focused approaches which have underpinned recent academic research, youth justice policy, and interventions all designed to reduce and prevent problem behavior. 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-focused paradigm. The book meets the need for an exploration of youth justice and youth offending which takes account of the origins and contemporary manifestations of risk-focused work with young people. It analyzes the influence of concepts of risk upon policy development in both England and Wales as well as internationally highlighting tensions between the proponents of risk factor research and methodological a
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