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Pathways to Ruin? - High-Risk Offending over the Life Course (Paperback)
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Pathways to Ruin? - High-Risk Offending over the Life Course (Paperback)
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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Individuals who have committed a number of crimes over their
lifetimes have had complex, multi-faceted life experiences often
characterized by extreme disadvantage and victimization. Those who
are formally designated as "high-risk" by the Canadian criminal
justice system often have a record of violent or sexual crimes. As
a result, they are usually subject to additional monitoring in the
community after completing a prison sentence. Pathways to Ruin?
disentangles the numerous elements and pathways that lead to high
rates of reoffending by focusing on developmental periods of
childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The book uses a case-study
approach to consider individuals' entire crime pathway by examining
the circumstances and factors that contribute to assumptions or
official designations of "high-risk" behaviour. Erin Gibbs Van
Brunschot and Tamara Humphrey overhaul society's popular crime
narratives and instead draw on sociological and criminological
perspectives to identify historical, social, and personal contexts
that appear to increase the likelihood of reoffending. They also
consider how negative life experiences may be addressed to
circumvent trajectories of serious offending. Reducing the social
distance that the "law-abiding" public may feel towards
marginalized groups, Pathways to Ruin? details how legal systems
could better serve these individuals, and acknowledges the many
missed opportunities for compassion.
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