Juvenile delinquency /
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Author / Creator: | Bartollas, Clemens |
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Edition: | 2nd ed. |
Imprint: | New York : Macmillan, c1990. |
Description: | xxiii, 568 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1020219 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part 1. The Nature and Extent of Delinquency
- Chapter 1. Adolescence and Delinquency
- How the Treatment of Adolescents Has Changed in the United States
- Youth at Risk Today
- How the Juvenile Court Codes Affect the Definitions of Delinquent Behavior
- What is a Status Offense?
- How Juvenile Delinquents Have Been Handled in the United States
- The Themes Used to Examine the Study of Delinquency
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 2. The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency
- The Contributions Made by Uniform Crime Reports to the Understanding of Delinquency
- Juvenile Court Statistics
- The Contributions Made by Cohort Studies
- How Self-Report and Official Statistics Compare
- The Contributions Made by Victimization Surveys
- The Most Important Social Factors Related to Delinquency
- The Dimensions of Delinquent Behavior
- Delinquency Through the Life Course
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Part 2. The Causes of Delinquency
- Chapter 3. Theories of Individual Causes of Delinquency
- The Contribution of the Classical School to the Understanding of Delinquency
- The Insights Positivism Offers to the Understanding of Delinquency
- Contemporary Approaches to the Rationality of Crime
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Theories of Social Structural Causes of Delinquency
- 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
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 5. Social Process Theories of Delinquency
- Differential Association Theory
- How Drift Theory is Related to Delinquency
- The Relationship Between Social Control and Delinquent Behavior
- How Integrated Theory Explains Delinquency
- Social Process and Delinquency Across the Course
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Social Reaction Theories of Delinquency
- How Labeling Theory Explains Delinquency
- The Contributions of Symbolic Interactionist Theory to the Understanding of Delinquency
- How Conflict Theory Explains Crime and Delinquency
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Part 3. Environmental Influences on Delinquency
- Chapter 7. Gender and Delinquency
- How is Gender Important in an Understanding of Delinquency?
- Explanations of Female Delinquency
- How Feminist Theories Can be Applied to an Understanding of Crime
- A Feminist Theory of Delinquency
- How Gender Bias Affects the Processing of the Female Delinquent
- Gender Across the Life Course
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 8. The Family and Delinquency
- How Adolescence and Family Problems Affect Delinquent Behavior
- The Relationship Between the Family and Delinquency
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- How Child Abuse is Handled by the Child Welfare and the Juvenile Justice System
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 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
- How Promising Partnerships Between the School and the Justice System Have Changed
- The Most Promising Intervention Strategies in the School Setting
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 10. Gangs and 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
- How Communities Can Prevent and Control Youth Gangs
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 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 Drug Use Can Be Prevented and Treated
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Part 4. Preventing Juvenile Crime
- Chapter 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
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Part 5. Social Control of Delinquency
- Chapter 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 Has Affected Juvenile Corrections
- Do Graduated Sanctions Represent A New Day in Juvenile Justice?
- Trends for the Twenty-First Century
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 14. The Police and the Juvenile
- The History of Police-Juvenile Relations
- Juveniles' Attitudes Toward the Police
- How Juvenile Offenders Are Processed
- The Legal Rights of Juveniles
- How does the Prevention and Deterrence of Juvenile Offenders Take Place?
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 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
- Pretrial Procedures
- What Happens During A Juvenile Trial?
- The Juvenile Sentencing Structures
- The Death Penalty for Juveniles
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Web Destinations
- Notes
- Chapter 16. Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community-Based Treatment, and Institutionalization
- Development of Community-Based and Institutional Corrections in the United States
- Probation
- The Roles Residential and Day Treatment Programs Play
- Types of Institutional Placement for Juveniles
- The Quality of Residential Life in Training Schools
- The Rights of Confined Juveniles
- How Juvenile Aftercare Works
- Summary