Full Description
Unrivaled in its current coverage of topics, the best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, International Edition, provides you with timely coverage of theory, policy, and the latest research. Praised for its balanced approach and for the authors' engaging writing style, this text will help you understand the nature of delinquency and its causes, as well as current strategies being used to control or eliminate its occurrence.
Contents
PART 11. Childhood and Delinquency.2. The Nature and Extent of Delinquency.3. Individual Views of Delinquency.4. Social Structure, Process, Culture, and Delinquency.5. Social Reaction, Conflict, and Delinquency.6. Developmental Theories of Delinquency: Life-Course and Latent Trait and Trajectory.7. Gender and Delinquency.8. The Family and Delinquency.9. Peers and Delinquency: Juvenile Gangs and Groups.10. Schools and Delinquency.11. Drug Use and Delinquency.12. Delinquency Prevention: Social and Developmental Perspectives.PART 4: THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM.13. Juvenile Justice: Then and Now.14. Police Work with Juveniles.15. Juvenile Court Process: Pretrial, Trial, and Sentencing.16. Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community Treatment, and Institutionalization.17. Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Abroad.
