Youth violence and delinquency : monsters and myths / edited by Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McShane, Marilyn D., 1956-

Williams, Franklin P.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Praeger perspectives

Criminal justice, delinquency, and corrections 1535-0371

Criminal justice, delinquency, and corrections, 1535-0371

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--United States.

Juvenile delinquency.

Victims of juvenile crime.

United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Victims of juvenile crime--United States.

Juvenile delinquency--United States--Prevention.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

Contents:

v. 1. Juvenile offenders and victims

v. 2. Juvenile justice

v. 3. Juvenile treatment and crime prevention.

v.1. Myths and realities : how and what the public knows about crime and delinquency / Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III

Age, gender, race, and rep : trends in juvenile offending and victimization / Richard McWhorter

Home is where the hurt is : child abuse and delinquency / Robert L. Bing III

Youth street gangs / Lorine A. Hughes

Juvenile sex offending / Camille Gibson

Bad boys in bars : hogging and humiliation / Jeannine A. Gailey and Ariane Prohaska

Delinquency, alcohol, and drugs / Frances P. Reddington

Where there's smoke : juvenile firesetting through stages of child development / Alan I. Feldberg, John H. Lemmon, and Thomas Austin

Weapons of minors' destruction : youthful offenders and guns / H. R. "Rudy" Hardy Jr.

Juveniles in cyberspace : risk and perceptions of victimization / Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams III, and Ming-Li Hsieh

Mother blame and delinquency claims : juvenile delinquency and maternal responsibility / Bruce Hoffman and Thomas M. Vander Ven

The great wall of China : cultural buffers and delinquency / Hsiao-Ming Wang.

v. 2. Contemporary juvenile justice reform movements : theory, policy, and the future / Michael P. Brown and Jill M. D'Angelo

Are we tough enough? : trends in juvenile sentencing / Attapol Kuanliang and Jon Sorensen

Boys to men : transferring juveniles to adult court / David Myers

Juvenile specialty courts / Victoria Simpson Beck, Lawrence F. Travis III, and Robert J. Ramsey

Restorative justice and victim awareness / Alida V. Merlo and Peter J. Benekos

Juvenile probation : supervision or babysitting? / Wesley A. Krause

"You can't go home again" : disproportionate confinement of African American delinquents / John K. Mooradian

Law and the treatment of mentally ill youth / Jon F. Farrar

Initiating faith-based juvenile corrections : exercising without establishing religion / Lonn Lanza-Kaduce and Jodi Lane

Cops in the classroom : assessing the appropriateness of search and seizure case law in schools / David Mueller and Richard Lawrence

The death penalty for juveniles in the United States : an obituary / Robert M. Bohm.

v. 3. What works with juveniles? : intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation / Clete Snell and Beau Snell

Delinquency programs that failed / Pamela J. Schram

The role of police in school safety / Julie Kiernan Coon and Lawrence F. Travis III

Juveniles and reintegrative shaming / Jennifer L. McGivern

Making sense of community supervision : diversion and probation in postmodern juvenile justice / Gordon Bazemore and Leslie A. Leip

Mandatory mental health treatment and juveniles / Barbara Belbot

Faith-based juvenile justice initiatives / Edward J. Schauer, Elizabeth M. Wheaton, and Ila J. Schauer

Resurrecting radical nonintervention : stop the war on kids / Randall G. Shelden

Private versus public operation of juvenile correctional facilities / Chad R. Trulson and Craig Hemmens

The future of delinquency prevention and treatment / Ronald Burns

Projecting juvenile populations : a forecasting model / Pablo E. Martinez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780275991128

0275991121

9780275991135

027599113X

9780275991142

0275991148

9780275991159

0275991156

OCLC:

80917317