Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family
About the Book Series
This series is the first series of its kind for Criminology. It offers a space to capture work on a range of topics that share the common theme of the relationship between crime, justice and the family, and aims to interrogate common-sense understandings of this relationship to explore just who is affected by crime and how they are affected, whether as victims of crime within the family, as secondary victims, or as parents, children, spouses, or other kin of offenders.
Offender Care and Support by Families in Contemporary Japan: The Nexus of Gender, Shame, and Ambivalence
1st Edition
By Mari Kita
December 18, 2024
Because people’s contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders. Compared to Western societies, Japan is known for its lower...
The Impact of Youth Imprisonment on the Lives of Parents
1st Edition
By Daniel McCarthy, Maria Adams
December 18, 2024
It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing material and emotional support offered through family, prisoners can have a stronger commitment to move towards prosocial pathways via these important ...
Criminology of the Domestic
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe
November 28, 2024
Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations. We move beyond criminologies of public and urban domains to consider over-looked non-public locales, and crimes and harms ...
Parenting Cyber-Risk: Opportunities and Challenges Raising Children with Digital Environments
1st Edition
By Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli
September 23, 2024
On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age. Utilizing 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian parents, the book provides an overview of ...
Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions
1st Edition
By Jasmina Arnež
May 27, 2024
This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material. It suggests ways to neutralise the effects of class on youth justice interventions in ...
Juvenile Lifers: (Lethal) Violence, Incarceration and Rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Simone Deegan
September 26, 2022
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 ...
Parental Imprisonment and Children’s Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Donson, Aisling Parkes
September 26, 2022
This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children’s rights lens. Children whose parents have been ...