Contributor
Rojek, Dean G.
Imprint:Los Angeles : Roxbury Pub. Co., c1996.
Descriptionxv, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:On cover: An anthology.
Note:SECTION I. DELINQUENCY AND JUVENILE JUSTICE: 1. What stays the same in history? / Thomas J. Bernard -- 2. A. Delinquency cases in juvenile court, 1992 / Jeffrey A. Butts -- B. How juveniles get to criminal court / Melissa Sickmund -- C. The juvenile court's response to violent crime / Verne L. Speirs -- 3. Public attitudes toward juvenile crime and juvenile justice: implications for public policy / Ira M. Schwartz, Shenyang Guo, John Johnson Kerbs -- SECTION II. LEGAL ISSUES: 4. In re Gault et al. -- 5. New Jersey v. T.L.O. -- 6. Elizabeth Quth et al. v. Annette Strauss et al. v. Steve Bartlett et al. -- 7. In re Gault revisited: a cross-state comparison of the right to counsel in juvenile court / Barry C. Feld -- SECTION III. MEASURING DELINQUENCY: 8. Juvenile offenders and victims: a focus on violence / Howard N. Snyder, Meliss Sickmund -- 8. National survey results on drug use from monitoring the future study, 1975-1993 / Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick O'Malley, Jerald Bachman -- 10. Culture, gender, and delinquency: a study of youths in the United States and India / Clayton A. Hartjen, Sesharajani Kethineni -- 11. Serious violent offenders: onset, developmental course, and termination / Delbert S. Elliott -- 12. Minorities and the juvenile justice sytem: a research summary / Carl Pope, William Feyerherm -- SECTION IV. THEORIES OF DELINQUENCY: 13. Biological perspectives in criminology / Diana H. Fishbein -- 14. Biological positivism / Michael R. Gottfredson, Travis Hirschi -- 15. Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of a general theory / Ronald L. Akers, Marvin D. Krohn, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, Marcia Radosevich -- 16. Age, peers, and delinquency / E. Mark Warr -- SECTION V. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAUSATION: 17. Poverty, income inequality, and community crime rates / E. Britt Patterson -- 18. Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency / Robert Agnew -- 19. Parents and drugs: specifying the consequences of attachment / Gary F. Jensen, David Brownfield -- 20. Structural position and violence: developing a cultural explanation / David F. Luckenbill, Daniel P. Doyle.
Note:SECTION IV. FAMILY, SCHOOLS, AND PEER GROUPS: 21. Family life, delinquency, and crime: a policymaker's guide / Kevin N. Wright, Karen E. Wright -- 22. School bonding, race, and delinquency / Stephen A. Cernkovich, Peggy C. Giordano -- 23. The influence of delinquent peers: what they think or what they do? / E. Mark Warr, Mark Stafford -- 24. Gangs, drugs, and delinquency in a survey of urban youth / Finn-Aage Esbensen, David Huizinga -- SECTION VII. MEDIA AND RELIGION: 25. Television and aggression: results of a panel study / J. Ronald Milavsky, Ronald Kessler, Horst Stipp, William S. Rubens -- 26. Movies and juvenile delinquency: an overview / Scott Snyder -- 27. Religiosity and delinquency: a contextual analysis / Kirk W. Elifson, David M. Petersen, C. Kirk Hadaway -- 28. Crime and Delinquency in the Roaring Twenties / Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge, Robert D. Crutchfield, Daniel P. Doyle, Roger Finke -- SECTION VIII. DETERRENCE AND LABELING: 29. Court processing versus diversion of status offenders: a test of deterrence and labeling theories / Sharla Rausch -- 30. The preventive effects of theperceived risk of arrest: testing an expanded conception of deterrence / Daniel S. Nagin, Ryamond Paternoster -- 31. Felony murder and capital punishment: an examination of the deterrence question / Ruth D. Peterson, William C. Bailey -- SECTION IX. IMPRISONMENT AND ALTERNATIVES: 32. Juveniles taken into custody: fiscal year 1991 / Barry Krisberg, Robert DeComo -- 33. Conditions of confinement: juvenile detention and corrections facilities / ABT Associates, Inc. -- 34. Comprehensive strategy for serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders / John J. Wilson, James C. Howell -- SECTION X. DIVERSION, RESTITUTION, AND SHOCK TREATMENT: 35. Juvenile diversion and the potential of inappropriate treatment for offenders / Dean G. Rojek -- 36. Restitution and juvenile recidivism / Jeffrey A. Butts, Howard N. Snyder -- 37. Restitution as a sanction in juvenile court / William G. Staples -- 38. Juvenile intensive supervision: the impact on felony offenders diverted from institutional placement / Richard G. Wiebush -- 39. The impact of shock incarceration programs on prison crowding / Doris Layton MacKenzie, Alex Piquero -- 40. A critical look at the idea of boot camp as a correctional reform / Merry Morash, Lila Rucker -- SECTION XI. THE FUTURE OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM: 41. History overtakes the juvenile justice system / Theodore N. Ferdinand -- 42. Juvenile (in)justice and the criminal court alternative / Barry C. Feld -- 43. Rethinking the juvenile justice system / Travis Hirschi, Michael R. Gottfredson.
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