Juvenile Justice in America - Hardcover

Bartollas Ph.D., Clemens F.; Miller, Stuart J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138576165 ISBN 13: 9780138576165

Publisher: Pearson Education (US), 1997

Synopsis

This second edition aims to explore and define the emerging component of Juvenile Justice in the United States and the special challenges facing juvenile justice in the 1990s.Bartollas and Miller focus on the control, correction and treatment of both juvenile offenders and delinquents. The book describes the jobs and problems of those practictioners in the justice system who work with youths and the workings of the important components of the juvenile justice system that brings both together.

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From the Back Cover:

Unique in approach, this book gives students an intimate look at the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the juvenile offender and the juvenile justice system. Its comprehensive approach progresses from the history of juvenile justice to the types of delinquency, to the causes of offending, to juvenile courts, corrections, probation and community-based programming. Fully revised, this edition includes a new chapter on juvenile aftercare and sections on youth development and treatment. Voices in the system are heard via a unique collection of first-person accounts that capture the personal, psychological and thinking processes that characterize juvenile misbehavior.

Synopsis:

Second edition of a text in which the basic focus is the control, correction, and treatment of not only juvenile offenders but others who are processed by the system such as the mentally ill and restricted, the abused, and the dependent and neglected. Current problems of drug-trafficking, hate crimes and other emerging violent trends among juvenile

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0138576165
• ISBN 13: 9780138576165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432