Overview
- Provides a succinct evidence base for policy makers and practitioners working with and for children
- Illustrates how best to advance a rights-based approach to youth justice
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to research on children in conflict with the law
Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology (PCSHRC)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ursula Kilkelly is Professor of Law in the School of Law at University College Cork, Ireland. She has researched and published extensively on international children’s rights, including children in conflict with the law. Ursula is co-editor of Youth Justice, the leading journal in the field, and in 2022/2023, holds the Rotating Chair in the Enforcement of Children’s Rights in Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Louise Forde is Lecturer at Brunel Law School, Brunel University London, UK. She researches and writes on youth justice and children’s rights and has a particular interest in translating international children’s rights law into practice and children’s participation.
Sharon Lambert is Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland. She has significant experience of working in community-based settings with socially excluded groups. Her area of expertise is trauma Informed service design.
Katharina Swirak is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include amongst others young people and social harm, the intersections of criminal justice and social policy and social reintegration after prison.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children in Conflict with the Law
Book Subtitle: Rights, Research and Progressive Youth Justice
Authors: Ursula Kilkelly, Louise Forde, Sharon Lambert, Katharina Swirak
Series Title: Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36652-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36651-2Published: 18 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36652-9Published: 17 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-412X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4138
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 185
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Human Rights, Prison and Punishment, Crime Control and Security, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Children, Youth and Family Policy