Juvenile Lifers

(Lethal) Violence, Incarceration and Rehabilitation

Simone Deegan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67696-4 (ISBN)

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This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder. Drawing on interviews with every juvenile under sanction of life imprisonment in the State of South Australia (2015–2019), it investigates links in the chain of events that led to the lethal violence that probably would have been broken had there been appropriate intervention.

Specifically, the book asks whether the existing criminal justice frame is the appropriate way to deal with children who commit grave acts. The extent to which prison facilitates and/or inhibits the mental, emotional, and social development of juvenile ‘lifers’ is a critical issue. Most – if not all – will be released at some point, with key issues of risk (public protection) and rehabilitation (probability of desistance) coming sharply to the fore. In addition, this book is also the first to capture how significant others including mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings are affected when children kill and the level of commitment these relatives have towards supporting the prisoner in his or her quest to build a positive future.

Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, andpenology; practitioners working in social policy; and all those interested in the lives and backgrounds of juvenile offenders.

Simone Jessica Deegan is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Flinders University Centre for Crime Policy and Research and also Principal Training Centre Advocate at the Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People. She has also worked as a criminal defence solicitor in the South Australian justice system. Her research interests include homicide, serious repeat offending, and life sentences.

1.Do the Crime, Do the Time: Responding to Kids Who Kill 2.Approach to the Field – Data 3.Accepting the Challenge: Male-on-Male Confrontational Violence 4.Misfits, Murder and the ‘Monster Child’ 5.Making Sense of Murder: Significant Others in the Lives of Young Homicide Offenders 6.Killing Time: Life as a Career Prisoner 7.Going Straight … or Straight Back Inside?

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-67696-6 / 0367676966
ISBN-13	978-0-367-67696-4 / 9780367676964
Zustand	Neuware