Juvenile Delinquency : The Core,9780495809869

Juvenile Delinquency : The Core

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780495809869
ISBN10: 0495809861
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-14
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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
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
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