Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

The purpose of this work is to contribute to the topic Experiences and lessons learned in meeting the unique needs of women and children, in particular the treatment and social reintegration of offenders at the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Doha, Qatar, April 2015) and to serve as a cross-disciplinary work for academic and policy-making analyses and follow-up in developing and developed countries. Furthermore, it argues for a more humane and effective approach to countering delinquency and crime among future generations. In a world where development positively depends on the rule of law and the related investment security, two global trends may chart the course of development: urbanization and education. Urbanization will globalize the concepts of justice and fairness ; education will be dominated by the urban mindset and digital service economy, just as a culture of lawfulness will. This work looks at crime prevention education as an investment in the sustainable quality of life of succeeding generations, and at those who pursue such crime prevention as the providers of much-needed skills in the educational portfolio. Adopting a reformist approach, this work collects articles with findings and recommendations that may be relevant to domestic and international policymaking, including the United Nations Studies and their educational value for the welfare of coming generations. The book addresses the relevant United Nations ideas by combining them with academic approaches. Guided by the Editors respective fields of expertise, and in full recognition of academic freedom and organized skepticism , it includes contributions by criminologists, sociologists, lawyers and other eminent experts seeking to bridge the gap between academic and policy perspectives, as appropriate, against the international background, including the United Nations developments.