Youth Violence and Delinquency [Three Volumes]

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Youth Violence and Delinquency [Three Volumes] Monsters and Myths

Marilyn D. McShane, ed., Frank P. Williams III, ed.

ISBN: 0-275-99112-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99112-8

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656 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 5/30/2007

List Price: $275.00 (UK Sterling Price: £189.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections

Reviews:

"The US media has crafted and sustained a violent youth image creating public fear and in turn leading forcefully to a juvenile punishment policy. Two nationally recognized scholars have assessed diverse knowledge focusing on key questions linked to youth, violence, and juvenile justice. Thirty-four chapters in three volumes by recognized scholars doing relevant research address questions, identify issues, provide documented answers, and engage readers in topics missing in media coverage. Each volume makes an important contribution to understanding youth violence and delinquency, and interconnections between the volumes make a powerful impact. Clearly connected with recent juvenile justice publications, and featuring an exceptionally documented bibliography, this set is a must read for community members and professionals seeking to be leaders in juvenile justice. Essential. All levels/libraries."
—Choice 3/1/2008

Description: Juvenile crime and violence has always piqued the public's interest. Indeed, each generation of Americans tends to define the youth crime problem as more serious than any previous generation. Even though juvenile homicides have been decreasing since the mid-1990s, the media is still quick to provide dramatic examples of juvenile monsters who are terrorizing their communities. Shootings at school, gang banging and trafficking drugs, school bullies, and charging juveniles as adults are subjects that have recently received wide media coverage. This three volume set on the nature, incidence, consequences, and treatment of youth crime and violence will help readers understand the true nature of youth crime and violence from a variety of perspectives. Each volume covers a different area and experts write on topics ranging from sex offending to fire starting, from gangs to guns, from juvenile probation to charging youths as adults, from mandatory mental health treatment to police in school settings, and more.

What drives a teenager to steal? To kill? Why does youth crime and violence occur? Why are youths such vulnerable targets? What can be done to stop youth offenders, and what can be done to help youthful victims? How does the criminal justice system respond? What do communities do to punish and protect youths? What can schools do to intervene? All these questions and more are answered in this set on this timely and important topic. Our youth are our most precious commodity, and protecting vulnerable children as well as helping offenders is of paramount importance for steering them toward safe and productive lives. These volumes help readers better understand the causes and consequences of youth violence and crime and consider ways to address the problems.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1 Juvenile Offenders and Victims
Preface
Chapter 1 Myths and Realities: How and What the Public Knows About Crime and Delinquency
Chapter 2 Age, Gender, Race and Rep: Trends in Juvenile Offending and Victimization
Chapter 3 Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Child Abuse and Delinquency
Chapter 4 Youth Street Gangs
Chapter 5 Juvenile Sex Offending
Chapter 6 Bad Boys in Bars: Hogging and Humiliation
Chapter 7 Delinquency, Alcohol and Drugs
Chapter 8 Where Theres Smoke: Juvenile Firesetting through Stages of Child Development
Chapter 9 Weapons of Minors Destruction: Youthful Offenders and Guns
Chapter 10 Juveniles in Cyberspace: Risk and Perceptions of Victimization
Chapter 11 Mother Blame and Delinquency Claims: Juvenile Delinquency and Maternal Responsibility
Chapter 12 The Great Wall of China: Cultural Buffers and Delinquency
Epilogue
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Volume 2 Juvenile Justice (courts, sentencing, deferred adjudication)
Preface
Chapter 1 Contemporary Juvenile Justice Reform Movements: Theory, Policy, and the Future
Chapter 2 Are We Tough Enough? Trends in Juvenile Sentencing
Chapter 3 Boys to Men: Transferring Juveniles to Adult Court
Chapter 4 Juvenile Specialty Courts
Chapter 5 Restorative Justice and Victim Awareness
Chapter 6 Juvenile Probation: Supervision or Babysitting?
Chapter 7 You Cant Go Home Again: Disproportionate Confinement of African-American Delinquents
Chapter 8 Law and the Treatment of Mentally Ill Youth
Chapter 9 Initiating Faith-based Juvenile CorrectionsExercising Without Establishing Religion
Chapter 10 Cops in the Classroom: Assessing the Appropriateness of Search and Seizure Case Law in Schools
Chapter 11 The Death Penalty for Juveniles in the United States: An Obituary
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Volume 3 Juvenile Treatment & Crime Prevention
Preface
Chapter 1 What Works with Juveniles? Intervention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
Chapter 2 Delinquency Programs That Failed
Chapter 3 The Role of Police in School Safety
Chapter 4 Juveniles and Reintegrative Shaming
Chapter 5 Making Sense of Community Supervision: Diversion and Probation in Post Modern Juvenile Justice
Chapter 6 Mandatory Mental Health Treatment and Juveniles
Chapter 7 Faith Based Juvenile Justice Initiatives
Chapter 8 Resurrecting Radical Non-intervention: Stop the War on Kids
Chapter 9 Private v. Public Operation of Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Chapter 10 The Future of Delinquency Prevention and Treatment
Chapter 11 Projecting Juvenile Populations: A Forecasting Model
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

About the Author: Marilyn D. McShane is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston, Downtown. She has published 17 books and edited works, including two encyclopedias. Her most recent book is A Step-by-Step Resource Guide to Theses in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Frank P. Williams III is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston, Downtown. He has taught for the past 30 years and was Chair at California State University, San Bernardino for nine years. He is the author of many books including Criminological Theory, now in its fourth edition, and Imagining Criminology.

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