Three British specialists from the youth justice field present a text synthesizing and organizing the available research and evidence in 11 key areas of youth justice practice. Coverage includes broad areas such as assessment and planning and access to key mainstream services such as education; areas of intervention tending toward preventative activity such as parenting programs and restorative justice; and the most intensive interventions culminating in custody. The text is designed for people currently working within the British youth justice system, those training to work in youth justice, and students taking youth justice courses as part of criminology or criminal justice degrees, including students taking Youth Justice Board-sponsored courses with The Open University. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)