Children and Crime - Softcover

Tang, Connie M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442257539 ISBN 13: 9781442257535

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Connie M. Tang first examines children as victims of maltreatment, exploring how developmental trauma and societal factors influence children’s behavior and psyche. Topics covered include child neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse. Later chapters address how children come into conflict with the law and discuss gang membership and substance abuse. Engaging, real-life case studies illustrate the intersectionality of race, gender, and crime, as well as the role of Child Protective Services and juvenile courts. In particular, Tang examines how abuse and neglect can later play a role in a child’s delinquency. Children and Crime provides an innovative and accessible text for psychology, social work, and criminal justice courses in child abuse, neglect, and delinquency.

About this title

About the Author

Connie M. Tang is an associate professor of psychology at Stockton University. She earned her PhD from the University of Wyoming, specializing in experimental and developmental psychology, and her research has been published in Criminal Justice Review, Journal of Cognition and Development, and American Journal of Forensic Psychology, among others. At Stockton, she teaches courses on child development, children and crime, field placement in childhood studies, research on childhood and adolescence, and the psychology of child victims and witnesses, in addition to coordinating the childhood studies program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442257539
• ISBN 13: 9781442257535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336