Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency is the firsttext to comprehensively trace the progress toward resolving critical juvenile justice and delinquency issues, and to provide cutting-edge intervention strategies to effectively rehabilitate juvenile offenders and prevent delinquency. Historical, political, and legal trends are examined and critiqued, As well as the range of developmental, familial, and sociological theoretical explanations of juvenile delinquency. Current evidence-based practice, prevention strategies and programs, and juvenile justice treatment and policy alternatives are thoroughly explored.Key Features:Examines a range of juvenile justice treatment and policy alternatives, including mental health screening and assessment, suicide prevention, drug and mental health courts, and therapeutic jurisprudence.Explores early crime prevention strategies, effective programs to reduce delinquent behavior, And The powerful relationship between school performance and juvenile delinquency.Provides a focus on special populations and issues such as female delinquency.Each chapter is written by a leading expert in delinquency or juvenile justice practices and research. 

PartPart I Introduction and Overview of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
ChapterChapter 1 A Brief Historical Overview of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
ChapterChapter 2 Trends in American Youth Crime
ChapterChapter 3 Scaling up from Juvenile Court Records to Offenses Committed
ChapterChapter 4 Reforming Juvenile Justice through Comprehensive Community Planning
PartPart II Early Intervention of Delinquency and Later Criminal Offending
ChapterChapter 5 Effectiveness of Early Crime Prevention
ChapterChapter 6 From Risk Identification to Risk Management: A Comprehensive Strategy for Young Children Engaging in Antisocial Behavior
ChapterChapter 7 The Power of Education in Juvenile Justice
ChapterChapter 8 Effective Programs to Reduce School Bullying
PartPart III Theories of Delinquency
ChapterChapter 9 Developmental Pathways and Life Trajectories of Delinquency
ChapterChapter 10 Family Influences on Delinquency
ChapterChapter 11 The Late Modern World of Adolescence and Sociological Theories of Delinquency
PartPart IV Juvenile Justice Treatment and Policy Alternatives
ChapterChapter 12 Screening and Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Risk of Re-Offending Among Juvenile Offenders
ChapterChapter 13 Youth Suicide in Juvenile Justice Settings: Prevention through Empirically-Based Assessment and Crisis Intervention
ChapterChapter 14 Police Responses to Criminal and Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century
ChapterChapter 15 State-of-the-Art Juvenile Detention: In Search of a New Normal
ChapterChapter 16 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Juvenile Court
ChapterChapter 17 Innovative Justice for Youth with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Juvenile Drug and Mental Health Courts
ChapterChapter 18 Evidence-Based Programs for At-Risk Youth and Juvenile Offenders: A Review of Proven Prevention and Intervention Models
ChapterChapter 19 Restorative Justice and Juvenile Offenders
ChapterChapter 20 What about the Girls? Gender, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century
ChapterChapter 21 Juvenile Delinquency and Community-Based After-care: A Review and Assessment