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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of juvenile crime and juvenile justice administration.
List of contents
- Preface
- Part I. Nature and Patterns of Juvenile Offending
- 1. Howard L. Snyder, Juvenile Delinquents and Juvenile Justice Clientele: Trends and Patterns in Crime and Justice System Responses
- 2. Alexis R. Piquero and Douglas B. Weiss, Heterogeneity in Delinquency
- 3. Christopher J. Schreck and Eric A. Stewart, Victim-Offender Overlap and its Implications for Juvenile Justice Offending and Victimization
- Part II. Individual Level Variables
- 4. Melissa Peskin, Andrea L. Glenn, Yu Gao, Jianghong Liu, Robert A. Schug, Yaling Yang, and Adrian Raine, Personal Characteristics of Delinquents: Neurobiology, Genetic Predispositions, Individual Psychosocial Attributes
- 5. Jennifer L. Woolard, Adolescent Development, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
- 6. Tamara M. Haegerich and Patrick H. Tolan, Delinquency and Comorbid Conditions
- 7. David P. Farrington, Predictors of Violent Young Offenders
- Part III. Social Contexts and Delinquency
- 8. Ronald L. Simons and Leslie Gordon Simons, Linking Family Processes and Adolescent Delinquency: Issues, Theories, and Research Findings
- 9. Gary D. Gottfredson, Schools and Delinquency
- 10. Mark Warr, The Social Side of Delinquent Behavior
- 11. Cheryl L. Maxson and Kristy N. Matsuda, Gang Delinquency
- 12. Charis E. Kubrin, Communities and Delinquency
- Part IV. Social Process and Delinquency
- 13. Robert Agnew, Strain and Delinquency
- 14. Ronald L. Akers and Christine S. Sellers, Social Learning Theory
- 15. Deanna L. Wilkinson, An Emergent Situational and Transactional Theory of Urban Youth Violence
- 16. Tom R. Tyler, Legal Socialization and Delinquency
- 17. John H. Laub and Sarah L. Boonstoppel, Understanding Desistance from Juvenile Offending: Challenges and Opportunities
- 18. Brandon C. Welsh, Delinquency Prevention
- Part V. Juvenile Court: History and Context
- 19. David S. Tanenhaus, The Elusive Juvenile Court: Its Origins, Practices, and Re-Inventions
- Part VI. Juvenile Court Clientele
- 20. Donna M. Bishop and Michael J. Leiber, Racial and Ethnic Differences in Delinquency and Justice System Responses
- 21. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, The Conundrum of Girls and Juvenile Justice Processing
- 22. Jodi Viljoen, Erika Penner, and Ron Roesch, Competence and Criminal Responsibility in Adolescent Defendants: The Roles of Mental Illness and Adolescent Development
- Part VII. Juvenile Court Case Processing: Screening, Detention, and Trial
- 23. Edmund F. McGarrell, Policing Juveniles
- 24. Daniel P. Mears, The Front End of the Juvenile Court: Intake and Informal vs. Formal Processing
- 25. Jeffrey A. Butts, John K. Roman, Jennifer Lynn-Whaley, Varieties of Juvenile Court - Non-specialized Courts, Teen Courts, Drug Courts, Mental Health Courts
- 26. William H. Barton, Detention
- 27. Barry C. Feld, Procedural Rights in Juvenile Courts: Competence and Consequences
- Part VIII. Sanctioning Delinquents
- 28. Gordon Bazemore, Restoration, Shame, and the Future of Restorative Practice in U.S. Juvenile Justice
- 29. Peter W. Greenwood and Susan Turner, Probation and other Non-Institutional Treatment: The Evidence Is In
- 30. Barry Krisberg, Juvenile Corrections: An Overview
- 31. Doris Layton MacKenzie and Rachel Freeland, Examining the Effectiveness of Juvenile Residential Programs
- Part IX. Youth in Criminal Court
- 32. Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop,
- 33. Edward P. Mulvey and Carol A. Schubert, Youth in Prison and Beyond
- Part X. Juvenile Justice Policy
- 34. Michael Tonry and Colleen Chambers, Juvenile Justice Cross-nationally Considered
- 35. Donna M. Bishop and Barry C. Feld, Trends in Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice
About the author
Barry C. Feld is Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of eight books, including: Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (OUP 1999 and winner of Hindelang Outstanding Book Award, American Society of Criminology, and Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences) and Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (OUP 1999). Donna M. Bishop is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.
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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of juvenile crime and juvenile justice administration.
