Juvenile Lifers

(Lethal) Violence, Incarceration and Rehabilitation
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-67702-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deegan, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Jugendstrafrecht, Jugenstrafvollzugsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

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.