Growing Out of Crime

Description

Growing Out Of Crime is a classic work about juvenile offenders that remains influential within a modern-day criminal justice climate.

The arguments which this book contains about managing offending behaviour and recognising that it is often part of a youngster’s maturation into adulthood have taken on a new resonance with the advent of the Youth Justice Board, youth justice teams (YOTs), youth offending panels (YOPs) and moves in the direction of restorative justice.

It is an essential work for every practitioner’s library and has long been recommended reading on degree and other courses.

With a new Preface.

Author

Andrew Rutherford is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Professor of Law at Southampton University. After studying at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge, he worked in the then Prison Department as an assistant governor in three borstal institutions. After six years’ teaching in the United States of America he returned to England and joined Southampton University in 1979. He is the author of several key works on criminal justice and penal affairs including Prisons and the Process of Justice: The Reductionist Challenge (1984), Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency (1993) and Transforming Criminal Policy: Spheres of Influence in the United States, The Netherlands and England and Wales During the 1980s (1996). Since 1996 he has edited the Waterside Press Criminal Policy Series. He is a former chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and is married with three children.