Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice - Softcover

Mcnamara, Robert Hartmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007811151X ISBN 13: 9780078111518

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2013

Synopsis

Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice brings together academic learning and practical exposure to real-life events in a way that empowers students to better understand how what they learn in-class applies to the larger criminal justice picture. Author and professor, Robert McNamara facilitates a learning process that goes beyond memorization to engagement with relevant, practical social applications and analyses. Students' critical thinking skills are strengthened by studying actual case studies, and applying what they've learned to determine the best course of action. Additionally, video assignments that include footage of actual juveniles in detention and practitioners will question preconceptions and myths that students may have. Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice breaks down the barriers between theory and practice, and allows students to connect with course material in a whole new way.

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About this title

About the Author

Dr. Robert McNamara is currently the Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College at The Citadel. He is also the Director of the 2 + 2 program in Criminal Justice and a Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice. He also serves as the Executive Director of The Case Hartmann Foundation, a non-profit organization that attempts to provide assistance and recognition to social workers, police officers, military personnel, and families in need.

Dr. McNamara is a former faculty member and Director of the Center for Social Research at Furman University. He is the author of a variety of books on topics such as juvenile delinquency, crime, multiculturalism in the criminal justice system, social problems, homelessness, interracial couples, prostitution, policing, foster care, urban sociology and social gerontology. Dr. McNamara has also served as a Senior Research Fellow for the National Strategy Information Center, the Policy Lab, the Police Executive Research Forum, in Washington, D.C. and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, in Baltimore, MD. He also served as a consultant for the Executive Office of Weed and Seed in Washington, DC and has published numerous articles on a variety of topics and has been a consultant for state, federal and private agencies on topics such as AIDS, drug abuse, urban redevelopment, homelessness, policing, and gangs, and health care. He also worked with the Regional Community Policing Institute at Eastern Kentucky University to study school safety in eight high schools across the state. He also worked with the Mexican government and the National Strategy Information Center to develop an anti-corruption curriculum in their public schools. Dr. McNamara holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 007811151X
• ISBN 13: 9780078111518
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 428