Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850

Author:   Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool) ,  Pamela Cox (University of Essex) ,  Heather Shore (Leeds Beckett University) ,  Zoe Alker (University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198788492


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool) ,  Pamela Cox (University of Essex) ,  Heather Shore (Leeds Beckett University) ,  Zoe Alker (University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780198788492


ISBN 10:   0198788495
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Introduction 2: The National System and Local Delivery of Youth Justice 3: Our Sample and our Sources 4: Life before the Institution 5: In the system 6: After Care: Successful Lives? 7: Care-free Lives? 8: What Worked? Who Cared? 9: History, Child Removal and Youth Justice Policy Appendix I Relevant Legislation Appendix II Letters from Bradwall boys to the Reformatory References

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Professor Barry Godfrey is Vice President of Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University and Pro Vice Chancellor of Liverpool University. He has published fourteen books on crime history, life-course offending, and longitudinal studies of sentencing. He is currently leading the AHRC funded 'Digital Panopticon', and collaborates on projects in Australia, China, and Canada. Professor Pamela Cox teaches and research across social history, social policy, socio-legal studies and criminology. Widely published, Pamela now leads an interdisciplinary evaluation of pioneering interventions working with birth mothers at risk of recurrent care proceedings; and works with local authorities to improve services for victims of crime. She is currently chair of the Social History Society. Dr Heather Shore is Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University. Her most recent book is London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930: A Social and Cultural History. She is currently PI on the AHRC funded, 'Our Criminal Past: Our Criminal Ancestors', with Dr. Helen Johnston; and the BA/Leverhulme funded 'Borstal Lives' project. Dr Zoe Alker is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool where she researches and teaches digital humanities and crime history. Zoe publishes in both criminological and history journals.

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