Author | : Franklin E. Zimring |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2000-10-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019514063X |
On juvenile delinquency in America
Author | : Franklin E. Zimring |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2000-10-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019514063X |
On juvenile delinquency in America
Author | : G. Jones |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 023010133X |
This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this increasingly important topic.
Author | : Michael H. Tonry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226808468 |
Youth violence has long been a contentious and perplexing issue in current debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence among young minority males from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Featuring articles by leading American and European scholars from many fields, this book overviews policy issues and research developments concerning crime and violence among the young.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2001-06-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0309172357 |
Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and other sensational incidents add to the furor. Often overlooked are the underlying problems of child poverty, social disadvantage, and the pitfalls inherent to adolescent decisionmaking that contribute to youth crime. From a policy standpoint, adolescent offenders are caught in the crossfire between nurturance of youth and punishment of criminals, between rehabilitation and "get tough" pronouncements. In the midst of this emotional debate, the National Research Council's Panel on Juvenile Crime steps forward with an authoritative review of the best available data and analysis. Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents recommendations for addressing the many aspects of America's youth crime problem. This timely release discusses patterns and trends in crimes by children and adolescentsâ€"trends revealed by arrest data, victim reports, and other sources; youth crime within general crime; and race and sex disparities. The book explores desistanceâ€"the probability that delinquency or criminal activities decrease with ageâ€"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 of solutions: 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.
Author | : Daniel J. Flannery |
Publisher | : American Psychiatric Pub |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780880488099 |
This is a resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of violence and understanding the risk factors facing youth. Presenting an assessment of effects of exposure to violence and the continuity of aggression from early childhood to adulthood, it outlines an integration strategy for public policy towards prevention and treatment.
Author | : United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Aggressiveness in adolescence |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James W. Messerschmidt |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442213728 |
In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and femininities, bullying in schools, the body, heterosexuality, and violence and nonviolence. After an introduction that lays out key concepts, including a revised structured action theory, Messerschmidt shares six compelling life-histories of white working-class boys and girls who have all been victims of severe forms of bullying at school. The book is unique in its comparative approach between violent and nonviolent youth, between boys and girls as offenders and non-offenders, between assaultive and sexual violence, and among a variety of masculinities and femininities. It also addresses how heterosexuality is related to sex, gender, and certain forms of violence or non-violence. The penetrating life histories are partially drawn from Messerschmid’s previous books Nine Lives and Flesh and Blood, as well as several completely new life-history interviews. The book’s cutting-edge conceptualization of these life histories provides novel insight into the vexing question of youth violence.
Author | : Rolf Loeber |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 1998-01-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1506320457 |
Detailed and comprehensive, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders presents authoritative discussions by a select group of leading scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is responsible for a disproportionate percentage of all crime and poses the greatest challenge to juvenile justice policymakers. Under the skillful editorship of Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington, this unique volume integrates knowledge about risk and protective factors with information about intervention and prevention programs so that conclusions from each area can inform the other. Current literature on these two areas does not, for the most part, apply directly to serious and violent juvenile offenders. This volume contends that serious and violent juvenile offenders tend to start displaying behavior problems and delinquency early in life, warranting early intervention. It is the contributors′ thesis that prevention is never too early. They also maintain, however, that interventions for serious and violent juvenile offenders can never be too late in that effective interventions exist for known serious and violent juvenile offenders. Augmented by charts, tables, graphs, figures, and an extensive bibliography, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders is an excellent reference work and a must read for policy and lawmakers, judges, attorneys, law enforcement personnel, education administrators, researchers, academics, social workers, sociologists, as well as graduate students and interns.
Author | : Laura L. Finley |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
From concerns about juveniles' "incorrigibility" at the turn of the century to school violence in the 1990s, adults have attempted to understand, control, and prevent juvenile violence. This work provides a historical overview of many significant time periods, and includes entries about many types of juvenile violence.