Juvenile Delinquency : The Core
ISBN: 9780495809869 | 0495809861
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/14/2010
Why Rent from Knetbooks?
Because Knetbooks knows college students. Our rental program is designed to save you time and money. Whether you need a textbook for a semester, quarter or even a summer session, we have an option for you. Simply select a rental period, enter your information and your book will be on its way!
Top 5 reasons to order all your textbooks from Knetbooks:
- We have the lowest prices on thousands of popular textbooks
- Free shipping both ways on ALL orders
- Most orders ship within 48 hours
- Need your book longer than expected? Extending your rental is simple
- Our customer support team is always here to help
In under 500 pages, Siegel and Welsh’s Juvenile Delinquency: The Core, 4e helps readers understand the nature of delinquency, its causes, and current strategies being used to control or eliminate its occurrence. The authors review recent legal cases, research studies, and policy initiatives.
A new boxed feature emphasizes success stories in intervention, while career profiles offer invaluable insight into related jobs--from those who live them every day. Completely current, the Fourth Edition offers enhanced coverage of emerging policies and programs, juvenile hate crime, social reaction and labeling theories, learning problems and delinquency, gangs, drugs, and capital punishment for juveniles.
It emphasizes intervention success stories and includes new career profiles that provide invaluable insight into potential career paths--from those who work them every day. In addition, leading-edge learning aids like chapter objectives, critical thinking questions, and a helpful point-by-point summary in each chapter help students maximize their course success.
| Childhood and Delinquency | |
| The Nature and Extent of Delinquency | |
| Individual Views of Delinquency | |
| Sociological Views of Delinquency | |
| Developmental Views of Delinquency | |
| New Directions in Preventing Delinquency | |
| Primary Prevention Efforts | |
| Early Childhood | |
| Gender and Delinquency | |
| The Family and Delinquency | ... MORE|
| Peers and Delinquency: Juvenile Gangs and Groups | |
| Schools and Delinquency | |
| Drug Use and Delinquency | |
| New Directions in Preventing Delinquency | |
| Secondary Prevention Efforts | |
| Family and Community | |
| The History and Development of Juvenile Justice | |
| Police Work with Juveniles | |
| Juvenile Court Process: Pretrial, Trial, and Sentencing | |
| Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community Treatment, and Institutionalization | |
| New Directions in Preventing Delinquency | |
| Tertiary Prevention Efforts | |
| The Role of the Juvenile Justice System | |
| Concluding Notes: American Delinquency | |
| Appendix: Excerpts from the U.S. Constitution | |
| Notes | |
| Glossary | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
