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- Winner of the Christine M Alder Book Prize 2017 awarded by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Reviews
“It goes some way to filling the significant gap in qualitative in-depth research on young people attempting to stop offending, and it brings their voices, experiences and the challenges they have faced, and continue to face, to light. … this book set out the issues in a very clear and thoughtful way, but in turn also sets out tangible solutions. This is an essential read for criminologists and anyone working in criminal justice who wants to make a difference.” (Briege Nugent, Rutgers University, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, March, 2017)
"An outstanding example of longitudinal qualitative analysis, Halsey and Deegan's Young Offenders allows for a deep, long-term immersion into the lives of a group of young people who have been demonised and dismissed by wider society. The rich complexity of their often tragic lives vividly emerges across the chapters in an example of genuine social science, as it ought to be." - Shadd Maruna, Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, USA"Halsey and Deegan provide offender accounts that are at once frustrating and heart-wrenching, yet illuminating and refreshing in their complexity. They reveal how the joining of disadvantaged backgrounds and unfair post-incarceration policies create barriers for young offenders wanting to desist. More important, they show how desistance can take surprisingly varied forms, which is a key contribution and challenge to previous criminal life course studies." - Randol Contreras, Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Simone Deegan was Project Officer for the Generativity in Young Male (Ex)Prisoners Project at Flinders University, Australia. Prior to this she worked as a criminal defence solicitor with the Legal Services Commission in the Magistrates and Youth Courts of South Australia. She has an ongoing interest in prisons and prison officer culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young Offenders
Book Subtitle: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance
Authors: Mark Halsey, Simone Deegan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137411228
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41121-1Published: 04 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48920-6Published: 24 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41122-8Published: 04 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 263
Topics: Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Prison and Punishment, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general