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Informationen zum Autor Cliff Roberson is former managing editor in chief of the journal Police Practice & Research, an international journal that is distributed in over 50 countries. In addition, he is an Emeritus Professor at Washburn University and retired Professor of Criminology at California State University, Fresno. His previous academic experience includes Professor of Criminology and Director of Justice Center, California State University, Fresno; Professor of Criminal Justice and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston, Victoria; Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University; and Director of Programs for the National College of District Attorneys, University of Houston. Cliff's non-academic legal experience includes Chief, Trial and Legal Services Section, Office of State Counsel for Offenders, Texas Board of Criminal Justice; private legal practice; judge pro-tem in the California courts; trial and defense counsel and military judge as a marine judge advocate; and Director of the Military Law Branch, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. Cliff is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Courts in California and Texas, Supreme Court of Texas and the Supreme Court of California.Elena Azaola is a professor at the Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Social Anthropology located in Mexico City. She received a PhD in Anthropology and did post graduate study at Columbia University on deviant behavior. She is also a psychoanalyst. Dr. Azaola was an advisor with the National Commission of Human Rights and a Council Member at the Federal District Commission of Human Rights. She coordinated the European Commission project for street children in Mexico (1999-2003). She has published more than 150 journal articles and numerous books on human behavior, crime, and human rights. Her research on the commercial sexual exploitation of children was sponsored by the United Nations Children Fund. She co-coordinated a National Report on Violence sponsored by the World Health Organization. She was the board chair of the Institute for Security and Democracy, which created the first center for police accreditation in Mexico and won the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Presently Dr. Azaola is working on a United Nations funded research on developing "Standards for Mexican Prisons." Klappentext Juvenile Delinquency focuses on why juveniles commit crime, opening your eyes to the fascinating concepts involving juvenile delinquency. The book is designed to provide a complete study of the behavior, beliefs, and reactions to deviance by young offenders, also what constitutes juvenile delinquency for a better understanding of this phenomenon. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgements Part I: Juveniles Delinquency OverviewChapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Juvenile DelinquencyChapter objectivesOverview of juvenile delinquencyDefining adolescence and lack of a uniform definitionTypes of Juvenile MisconductMeasuring DelinquencyGoals of the Juvenile Justice SystemFactors that influence juvenile behaviorsOverview of delinquency theoriesCrime and AgeFemale DelinquencyOverview of federal action on juvenile JusticePracticumSummary Discussion and Review QuestionsChapter 2: Issues Involving Juvenile DelinquencyChapter objectivesDo We Need A Separate Court System?Juveniles Involved in Sex TraffickingPrimary Purpose of Juvenile Justice Courts? Juvenile Incarceration FundingPrivately-Operated Juvenile InstitutionsSchool to Prison PipelineJuveniles Who Commit Violent CrimesPathways to DesistanceBullyingCyber DelinquencyPracticumSummary Discussion and Review QuestionsPart II: Delinquency Causation TheoriesChapter 3: Classical and Positivists ConceptsChapter objectivesDelinquency BehaviorsEarly Theories of DelinquencyClassical ConceptsFree WillRational choice Mental Capacity DefensesEarly ...
