Juvenile Justice in America
ISBN: 9780132256940 | 0132256940
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Fully focused on the important issues, emerging trends, contemporary research, and special challenges facing juvenile justice today, this comprehensive exploration of the American juvenile justice system covers the history and philosophy of juvenile justice, the current practices for processing youthful offenders, the detention of juveniles, and the diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system. Unique in its approach, it gives students an "up-close and personal" view of the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the juvenile offender-... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Juvenile Justice: An Overview | |
| Profile of the Juvenile Offender | |
| The Social Context of Youth Crime | |
| The System and Early Decision Making | |
| The Police | |
| The Juvenile Court | |
| Youths in Adult Court | |
| Juvenile Probation | |
| Community-Based Corrections | |
| Community-Based Corrections | ... MORE|
| Juvenile Aftercare | |
| Institutionalization | |
| The Training School | |
| The Inmate World | |
| The Staff Response | |
| Status and Chronic Offenders | |
| Status Offenders | |
| The Chronic Offender | |
| Treatment, Research, and New Directions | |
| Treatment Technologies | |
| Research and Theory in Juvenile Justice | |
| Toward a New Vision of Juvenile Justice | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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