Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Arena

Mental Health and Emerging Adulthood among Homeless Young People

• By Les B. Whitbeck.

Published April 2009

What happens to homeless and runaway adolescents when they become adults? This is the first study that follows homeless youth into young adulthood and reviews the mental health consequences of runaway episodes and street life. The adolescents were interviewed every three months for three years from…
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Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet

• By Monica T. Whitty, and Adam Joinson.

Published August 2008

The Internet is often presented as an unsafe or untrustworthy space: where children are preyed upon by paedophiles, cannibals seek out victims, offline relationships are torn apart by online affairs and where individuals are addicted to gambling, love, and cybersex. While many of these stories…
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Violence and Serious Theft

Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood

• Edited by Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Helene Raskin White.

Published February 2008

In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. Violence and Serious Theft is unique in that it combines the strengths of three disciplines to explain delinquency in…
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Rehabilitation

• By Tony Ward, and Shadd Maruna.

Published May 2007

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one…
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Criminal Behavior

• By Elaine Cassel, and Douglas A. Bernstein.

Published April 2007

Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior. Criminal Behavior: takes into account biological, genetic, developmental,…
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C. Crime and Delinquency

Published March 2007

Criminology is an area of burgeoning growth today and this set makes available a selection of fascinating early studies in the field.…
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Judging the Image

Art, Value, Law

• By Alison Young.

Published October 2004

Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal…
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Pro-Social and Anti-Social Behaviour

• By David Clarke.

Published July 2003

Pro-Social and Anti-Social Behaviour describes the nature and causes of pro-social and anti-social behaviour. It is an introductory level text aimed at students new to this area of Social Psychology. Topics covered include social psychological theories of aggression, altruism and bystander…
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The Meanings of Violence

• Edited by Elizabeth A Stanko.

Published December 2002

The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to…
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Working with Young People in Secure Accommodation

From Chaos to Culture

• By Jim Rose.

Published July 2002

Locking up young people in secure units is a contentious issue which attracts a great deal of public attention and interest, and a broad range of views. Working with Young People in Secure Accommodation: From Chaos to Culture examines the function of these units and offers a balanced insight into…
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