Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

By Albert R. Roberts and David W. Springer

Book Overview

"Juvenile Justice and Delinquency" is the first text 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763760560
• ISBN13: 9780763760564
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 8.9"