Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings. Peer mentors are community members, often with live

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of peer mentoring in criminal justice. Drawing upon a rigorous ethnographic study of multiple community organisatio

In recent years increasing attention has been paid to issues of social exclusion and the problematic transition from youthful dependence to adult independence.

A powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.

"This handbook is remarkable in that it provides a comprehensive and finely nuanced account of the diverse approaches that researchers, theorists,and practition