NCJ Number
159890
Date Published
1996
Length
482 pages
Annotation
This text provides an overview of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system in the United States.
Abstract
Individual chapters define juvenile delinquency, discuss measures used, and describe its extent. Additional chapters detail the history of juvenile justice, the biological and psychological approaches to explaining juvenile delinquency factors, and the sociological explanations for delinquency. Further chapters discuss juvenile gangs, including their characteristics, behavior, and intervention issues and discuss juvenile drug use, the relationship between drugs and juvenile delinquency, and treatment and prevention approaches. Other chapters explain the police role in juvenile justice, the juvenile court process, judicial decisions regarding the rights of minors, juveniles' rights in school, juvenile diversion, juvenile correctional institutions, community-based juvenile corrections, the victimization of juveniles, and proposals for juvenile justice reform. Figures, tables, lists of major terms, chapter discussion questions, glossary, subject and author indexes, list of cases, and more than 800 references