Understanding youth and crime /
Sheila Brown.
- 2nd edition.
- Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005.
- 256 p.
Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Youth has been a focus of the sociologies of deviance, popular culture, and criminology. This text reassesses the growing body of research about crime and young people to provide a critical introduction to the study of youth, crime and punishment.