Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society

by Mark D. Jacobs and Jacobs, Mark D. Jacobs, Mark D.

Book Overview

Who is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and exceptional cases, he reveals that probation officers must commonly contrive informal measures to circumvent a system which routinely obstructs the delivery of services to their clients. Jacobs defines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226389804
• ISBN13: 9780226389806
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"