Juvenile delinquency

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Juvenile delinquency

Clemens Bartollas

Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2006

7th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

Juvenile Delinquency provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of all aspects of juvenile delinquency with a sociological focus. This book examines the explanations of juvenile delinquency, the environmental influences on delinquent behavior, the efforts of society to prevent juvenile delinquency, an evaluation of the justice system's effectiveness in controlling juvenile delinquency, the review of recent legislation and court rulings on the rights of youthful offenders, and the rights of adolescents in general.

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Summary, Key Terms, Critical Thinking Questions, Web Destinations and Notes conclude each chapter. I. THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF DELINQUENCY. 1. Adolescence and Delinquency. How Has the Treatment of Adolescents Changed in the United States? Are Youth at Risk Today? How the Juvenile Court Codes Affect the Definitions of Delinquent Behavior What is Status Offense? How Juvenile Delinquents Have Been Handled in American Society The Themes Used to Examine the Study of Delinquency 2. The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency. The Contributions Uniform Crime Reports Have Made to Understanding Delinquency Juvenile Court Statistics The Contributions of the Cohort Studies How Self-Report and Official Statistics Compare The Contributions of Victimization Surveys The Most Important Social Factors Related to Delinquency The Dimensions of Delinquent Behavior Delinquency Through the Life Course II. THE CAUSES OF DELINQUENCY. 3. Individual Causes of Delinquency. The Contribution of the Classical School to the Understanding Delinquency The Insights Positivism Offer to Understanding Delinquency Contemporary Approaches to the Rationality of Crime 4. Social Structure Theories. Social Disorganization Theory How Cultural Deviance Theory is Related to Delinquency How Strain Affects Delinquent Behavior The Relationship Between Social Stratification and Delinquency Structural Explanations of Delinquency Across the Life Course 5. Social Process Theories. Differential Association Theory How Drift Theory Related to Delinquency The Relationship Between Social Control and Delinquent Behavior How Integrated Theory Explains Delinquency Social Process and Delinquency Across the Life Course 6. Social Reaction Theories. How Labeling Theory Explains Delinquency What The Contribution of Symbolic Interactionist Theory to the Understanding of Delinquency How Conflict Theory Explains Crime and Delinquency III. ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON DELINQUENTS. 7. Female Delinquency and Gender, Class, and Race. How is Gender Important in Understanding Delinquency? Gender Neutral Perspectives on Explanations of Female Delinquency How Feminist Theories Can be Applied to Understanding Crime A Feminist Theory on Delinquency How Gender Bias Affects the Processing of the Female Delinquent Gender Across the Life Course The Continuum of Care for Female Juvenile Offenders 8. The Family and Delinquency. How Adolescence and Family Problems Affect Delinquency Behavior The Relationship between the Family and Delinquency Child Abuse and Neglect Across the Life Course and Family How Child Abuse and Neglect Handled by the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System 9. The School and Delinquency. How Education Has Evolved in the United States What Constitutes Crime in the Schools Is There a Correlation between Delinquency and School Failure? Some of the Theoretical Perspectives on School and Delinquency The Rights of Students Are There Promising Partnerships Between the School and the Juvenile Justice System? The Most Promising Intervention Strategies Are in the School Setting 10. Gang Delinquency. How Peer Groups and Gangs are Related How Gangs Have Evolved in the United States The Nature and Extent of Gang Activity The Theories of Gang Formation Gangs Across the Life Course How Communities Can Prevent and Control Youth Gangs 11. Drugs and Delinquency. How Social Attitudes Are Related to Drug Use The Prevalence and Incidence of Drug Use among Adolescents The Main Types of Drugs The Relationship Between Drug Use and Delinquency Is There a Correlation Between Chronic Offending and Drug Use? Some of the Theoretical Explanations for the Onset of Drug Use How Can Drug Use be Prevented and Treated IV. PREVENTION, DIVERSION, AND TREATMENT. 12. Prevention, Diversion, and Treatment. Delinquency Prevention How Diversion Works The Treatment Debate The Most Frequently Used Treatment Modalities What Works for Whom and in What Context? V. SOCIAL CONTROL OF DELINQUENCY 13. An Overview of the Juvenile Justice Process. How the Structures and Functions of the Juvenile Justice System Work THe Relationship Between Treatment and Punishment in the Juvenile Justice System How the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 Affected Juvenile Corrections Do Graduated Sanctions Represent a New Day in Juvenile Justice? Trends for the Twenty-First Century 14. The Police and the Juvenile. The History of Police-Juvenile Relations Juveniles' Attitudes toward the Police How Juvenile Offenders are Processed International Juvenile Justice and the Police The Legal Rights of Juveniles How the Prevention and Deterrence of Youth Offenders Takes Place What Do the Police Contribute to the Prevention and Deterrence of Juvenile Delinquency? 15. The Juvenile Court. How the Juvenile Court Originated How the Norms of the Juvenile Court Have Changed The Role Expectations of Juvenile Court Actors The Pretrial Procedures Juvenile Justice and the International Context What Happens During a Juvenile Trial The Juvenile Sentencing Structures Reduced Use of the Death Penalty for Juveniles 16. Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community Treatment and Institutionalization Development of Community-Based and Institutional Corrections Probation The Role Residential and Day Treatment Programs Play The Types of Institutional Placement for Juveniles The Quality of Residential Life in a Training School The Rights of Confined Juveniles How Aftercare Works Evaluation of Juvenile Corrections

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