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Child Victims : Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice
Sally Morgan
Paperback - $170.95
Filling a serious gap between the literature on victimization and general social policy on children, Child Victims explores the range and extent of crimes committed against children and assesses their impact. For the first time, testimony of over two ...
Genocide and Settler Society : Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History
A. D. Moses
Paperback - $54.95
Boys Among Men : Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
David L. Myers
Hardcover - $90.95
Images of youngsters in handcuffs and prison uniforms have become common on the nightly news in the United States. As America's fascination with crime and justice has grown, so has attention to the ways in which youthful offenders are charged, tried, ...
Gender, Youth and Culture : Young Masculinities and Femininities
Anoop Nayak
Hardcover - $177.95
This book is about the making and unmaking of gender. It asks, how do boys become men and girls become women in late-modernity? What does it mean to be a "proper" girl or boy? What are the costs of failing to inhabit this identity? What are the possi ...
Gender, Youth and Culture : Young Masculinities and Femininities
Anoop Nayak
Paperback - $62.95
This book is about the making and unmaking of gender. It asks, how do boys become men and girls become women in late-modernity? What does it mean to be a "proper" girl or boy? What are the costs of failing to inhabit this identity? What are the possi ...
America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities : Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference
Sharon Nichols
Paperback - $90.95
The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images held by large numbers of adults. Recognizing that m ...
Bullies, Fights, and Guns : Testing Self-Control Theory with Juveniles
Stacey Nofziger
Hardcover - $119.95
Most examinations of juvenile violence are limited in the behaviors studied and the theories used. To address these issues Nofziger applies a test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) General Theory of Crime to a range of violent and intimidating acts ...
Children's Places : Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Karen Fog Olwig
Paperback - $86.95
Based on in-depth ethnographic research, "Children's Places" examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the "proper place" of children in both social and spatial terms.
Childrenas Rights : Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection
Tom Oneill
Paperback - $70.95