The 8% Solution: Preventing Serious, Repeat Juvenile Crime

by Michael Allen Schumacher, Michael Schumacher, Gwen A. Kurz

Book Overview

The public perception is that juvenile crime is out-of- hand and that no one can do anything about it. Research, however, shows that a mere 8% of juvenile offenders arrested and sent to juvenile court commit more than half of all repeat juvenile crimes, including violence. And, something is being done about it The surprising fact is that this "8%" can be picked out at the time of their first arrest. This book represents seven years of research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076191790X
• ISBN13: 9780761917908
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"