Juvenile crime, juvenile justice / Joan McCord, Cathy Spatz Widom, and Nancy A. Crowell, editors.
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 pitf...
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Table of Contents:
- Patterns and trends in juvenile crime and juvenile justice
- The development of delinquency
- Preventing juvenile crime
- The juvenile justice system
- Race, crime, and juvenile justice: the issue of racial disparity.