Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
This timely release discusses patterns and trends in crimes by children and adolescents -- trends revealed by arrest data, victim reports, and other sources; youth crime within general crime; and race and sex disparities. The book explores desistance -- the probability that delinquency or criminal activities decrease with age -- and evaluates different approaches to predicting future crime rates.
Why do young people turn to delinquency? Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents what we know and what we urgently need to find out about contributing factors, ranging from prenatal care, differences in temperament, and family influences to the role of peer relationships, the impact of the school policies toward delinquency, and the broader influences of the neighborhood and community. Equally important, this book examines a range ofsolutions:
-- Prevention and intervention efforts directed to individuals, peer groups and families, as well as day care-, school- and community-based initiatives.
-- Intervention within the juvenile justice system.
-- Role of the police.
-- Processing and detention of youth offenders.
-- Transferring youths to the adult judicial system.
-- Residential placement of juveniles.
The book includes background on the American juvenile court system, useful comparisons with the juvenile justice systems of other nations, and other important information for assessing this problem.
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