Responding to Troubled Youth

by Cheryl L. Maxson and Malcolm W. Klein

This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in responding to these troubled and troublesome youths--discussed at length in this book--are known as the treatment, deterrence, and normalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098536
• ISBN13: 9780195098532
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"