Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today—an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.
Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency provides a concise overview of the most compelling issues in juvenile delinquency today. It covers not only the range of offenses but also the offenders themselves as well as those impacted by crime and delinquency. All of the chapters contain up-to-date research, laws, and data that accurately frame discussions on youth violence, detention, and treatment; related issues such as gangs and drugs; the consequences for scholars, teachers, and students; and best practices in intervention methods.
The book's organization guides readers logically from the broader definitions and parameters of the study of juveniles to the more specific. The volume leads with an explanation of the relationship between victimization and juvenile behavior and sets up boundaries of the arenas of delinquency—from the family to the streets to cyberspace. The book then focuses on more specific populations of offenders and offenses, including recent, emerging issues, offering the most accurate information available and cutting-edge insight into the issues that affect youth in custody and in our communities.
Contents
PART I: THE CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF JUVENILE JUSTICE ISSUES
1. Maltreatment and Delinquency: Breaking the Cycle of Offending
Alida V. Merlo and Peter J. Benekos
2. Juveniles in Cyberspace: Issues in Enforcement and Parental Controls
Ming Li Hsieh, Marilyn D. McShane, and Frank P. Williams III
3. Juvenile Prostitution and Safe Harbor Laws
Stephanie Fahy
PART II: COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS: PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES TO DELINQUENCY
4. Drugs in Homes, Schools, and Communities
Marcos Misis
5. School Searches: Balancing Delinquency and Privacy
Michael Cavanaugh
PART III: KEEPING YOUTH WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OUT OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
6. Childhood Trauma: The Effects of Abuse and Homelessness
Traqina Emeka
7. Children of Incarcerated Parents: Problems and Resilience
Alexandria Pech and Barbara E. Bloom
8. Autism Spectrum Disorders and Juvenile Justice: The Myths of Perpetrators and Victims
Rebecca Pfeffer
PART IV: RACE, ETHNICITY, DELINQUENCY, AND JUSTICE
9. Acculturation, Ethnic Bias, and Explanations of Delinquency
Antonio Hernandez and Judith Harris
10. When Minority Exceeds Majority: Understanding and Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
John K. Mooradian
PART V: ADMINISTERING JUSTICE: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO INTERVENE AND TREAT
11. Juvenile Incarceration: Risks and Remedies
Melanie Taylor and Sarah Thomas
12. What Works with Juveniles Offenders?
Clete Snell and Janet Eguzouwa
13. The Future of Delinquency Prevention and Treatment
Ronald Burns and Kendra Bowen
Epilogue
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
