This book offers a highly accessible, comprehensive look at the juvenile justice system. With pedagogy fully
integrated throughout the text, readers will easily make the connections between theory and practice. The text
explores the various programs and processes that exist in the juvenile justice system, including prevention efforts
through school and community-based programs, and provides an understanding of the history, current state, and future
of juvenile justice.
Benefits:
NEW! The authors have increased coverage of the juvenile justice system while decreasing coverage of the environmental
factors that affect delinquency.
NEW! Chapter 13 includes increased coverage of at-risk populations and treatment programs.
NEW! Throughout the text, cases and examples have been updated. References have been completely revised, with
none before 2000 unless they are seminal or classic citations.
NEW! A Companion Web Site is now available for this text. This student resource features web links, assignments
for each chapter, and InfoTrac College Edition research exercises.
In-text pedagogy includes "Do You Know?" Questions, "Can You Define" terms, "Discussion
Questions", and integrated tables and figures to reinforce concepts.
Written at an accessible yet comprehensive level, with a good blend of theory and practice.
The authors include integration of delinquency theories with current policies.
Examines current practices nationally and globally.
Discussion in Chapter 3 of child development includes greater coverage of adolescence.
Important new developments in violence in schools, schools' roles in juvenile justice, community policing and
community corrections has been incorporated throughout.
Includes the latest in new objectives and elements of an effective juvenile system released in 1998 by the
OJJDP.
NEW! Coverage of prevention programs has been significantly increased to include Big Brothers and Sisters,
after school programs, SafeFutures, Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative. life skills programs, multisystemic
programs, and drug abuse treatment.
NEW! The differences between the adult and juvenile systems are covered in greater detail in Chapter 1. This
chapter will also include updated coverage of history to include recent trends in juvenile justice.
NEW! The authors have increased coverage of modern theoretical models in Chapter 2, including developmental
and social disorganization theories.
NEW! Chapters 3-7 have been collapsed from 5 into 4 chapters that focus on development, theory and environmental
factors. The new Chapter 6 discusses the increase in juvenile violent crime.
NEW! Chapters 8-11 dealing with the justice system are broadened into 6 chapters.
NEW! Former Chapter 8 (Policing Juveniles) has been expanded to 2 chapters, including information on policing
gangs.
NEW! Chapter 9 includes more information on diversion programs, as well as a new section on gangs.
NEW! Chapter 11 includes expanded discussion of community corrections practices.
Table of Contents
1. Separate Justice: Philosophical and Historical Roots of the Juvenile Justice System.
2. The Theories behind and the Evolution of the Contemporary Juvenile Justice Process.
3. Growth and Development: The First Eighteen Years.
4. Neglected, Abused, Victimized and Missing Children and Youths.
5. Status Offenders and Nonviolent Delinquents.
6. Serious, Chronic and Violent Juvenile Offenders.
7. The Law Enforcement Response to Abused/Neglected Children and Status Offenders.
8. The Law Enforcement Response to Violent Offenders.
9. The Juvenile Court. and Alternatives at Intake.
10. The Juvenile Court in Action.
11. The Response of Corrections.
12. The Juvenile Justice System''s Reliance on the Broader Community.
13. Approaches to Prevention.
14. Approaches to Treatment.
Epiloq Juvenile Justice at the Crossroads.
Appendices.
Glossary.
