This unusual book tells vividly the story of children who have broken the law and their treatment from the time of King Athelstan to present day. With few excep

A fascinating and very readable exploration of how young offenders have passed through the legal justice system over 300 years.

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895

Why did men and women in one of the best educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how histo

State-of-the-art critical reviews of recent scholarship on the causes of juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice system responses, and public policies to prevent