Juvenile delinquency /

"Schmalleger and Bartollas' Juvenile Delinquency is an up-to-date exploration of the causes and consequences of delinquent behavior based on the latest theoretical understandings of delinquency and on the real-life experiences of young people today. Juvenile Delinquency highlights "li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmalleger, Frank
Other Authors: Bartollas, Clemens
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Pearson, [2008], ©2008
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 Adolescence and delinquency
  • Ch. 2. The measurement and nature of delinquency
  • Ch. 3. Individual causes of delinquency
  • Ch. 4. Social structural causes of delinquency
  • Ch. 5. Social process theories of delinquency
  • Ch. 6. Social interactionist theories of delinquency
  • Ch. 7. Gender and delinquency
  • Ch. 8. The family and delinquency
  • Ch. 9. The school and delinquency
  • Ch. 10. Gangs and delinquency
  • Ch. 11. Drugs and delinquency
  • Ch. 12. Prevention, diversion, and treatment
  • Ch. 13. The juvenile justice process
  • Ch. 14. The police and the juvenile
  • Ch. 15. The juvenile court
  • Ch. 16. Juvenile corrections.