Table of Contents

Introduction: Risk Factor Research 1. Examining the Unresolved Methodological Paradoxes of Risk Factor Research 2. The Origins and Development of Risk Factor Research 3. Longitudinal Risk Factor Research in England and Wales – Achievements, Limitations and Potential 4. Cross-sectional Risk Factor Research in England and Wales – Achievements, limitations and Potential 5. Hunting for the Universal Risk Factor 6. Risk Assessment in the Youth Justice System: Application without Understanding? 7. Re-visiting Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice

About the Author

Stephen Case is Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Swansea University. Kevin Haines is Reader in Youth Justice and Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology Swansea University. Both have written extensively in the field of youth justice.

Reviews

'This text is important reading for researchers and practitioners in the areas of youth offending, risk factorisation and in more general terms of theoretical and methodological perspectives.'-Bethany Alden, Open University in Youth & Policy, no 107