The Causes of Exclusion: Home, School and the Development of Young Criminals

This major report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime that focuses on failure, and research on educational development that focuses on success. The author explores the central issues of parenting styles, schooling, bullying, truancy, and peer pressure, and environmental experiences, and why these issues turn some people to crime.Based on original research, the bookbs academic validity is balanced by its readability, real life examples, and relevant and interesting evidence. Using case studies and empirical data, the book looks at the topic through a series of phases: - The circumstances of home life- Parental attitudes to school- Experiences from school- Teaching and exclusion- Peer groups, personality and self awareness- The excluded parents themselves