Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Justice

Author: Barry Krisberg

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0761925015

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Juvenile justice policies have historically been built on a foundation of myths and misconceptions. Fear of young, drug-addled superpredators, concerns about immigrants and gangs, claims of gender biases, and race hostilities have influenced the public′s views and, consequently, the evolution of juvenile justice. These myths have repeatedly confused the process of rational policy development for the juvenile justice system. Juvenile Justice: Redeeming Our Children debunks myths about juvenile justice in order to achieve an ideal system that would protect vulnerable children and help build safer communities. Author Barry Krisberg assembles broad and up-to-date research, statistical data, and theories on the U.S. juvenile justice system to encourage effective responses to youth crime. This text gives a historical context to the ongoing quest for the juvenile justice ideal and examines how the current system of laws, policies, and practices came into place.Juvenile Justice reviews the best research-based knowledge on what works and what does not work in the current system. The book also examines failed juvenile justice policies and applies high standards of scientific evidence to seek new resolutions. This text helps students embrace the value of redemptive justice and serves as a springboard for the current generation to implement sounder social policies. Juvenile Justice is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students studying juvenile justice in Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Sociology. The book is also an excellent supplemental text for juvenile delinquency courses. About the AuthorBarry Krisberg, PhD has been President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1983. Dr. Krisberg received both his master′s degree in Criminology and his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii and has held previous faculty positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Krisberg was appointed by the legislature to serve on the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Inmate Population Management. He has several books and articles to his credit, is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues, and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media.

Juvenile Justice and Public Policy
Juvenile Justice and Public Policy

Author: Ira M. Schwartz

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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With juvenile violence on the rise, the juvenile justice system is in turmoil. More young people are being confined in training schools, detention centers, and private youth correction facilities than at any other time in history. At least half of all voting age adults want juveniles who commit felonies tried in the adult criminal courts, and there are calls to abolish the juvenile court altogether. Moreover, this is happening at a time when policymakers in virtually every state are being confronted with increasing demands for public services and dwindling fiscal resources. Already, billions in federal, state, and local dollars are spent on this problem every year. Yet response to this increasing problem is generally met only in reaction to one or two particularly heinous acts rather than on an ongoing basis. Juvenile Justice and Public Policy addresses many of the most critical juvenile policy issues of the 1990s. It examines in detail the future of the juvenile court, juvenile involvement in gangs, special issues such as gender, race, and ethnicity, and cost-effective youth correction policies and interventions. Further, the book presents the findings from a 1991 public opinion survey on attitudes toward juvenile crime - the first comprehensive poll of its kind - and proposes a new national juvenile justice agenda. Chapters were authored by some of the most knowledgeable and respected juvenile justice practitioners and academics in the country. Juvenile Justice and Public Policy gives much-needed guidance to elected public officials and to professionals on the firing line, and will also be of interest to students of juvenile justice - those who are examining the system and areinterested in its future.

Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents
Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents

Author: Harvey B. Milkman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781412906159

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Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable patient population in the justice system. Mental health providers can get specific tools for improving evaluation and treatment of at-risk youth with this comprehensive and developmentally appropriate treatment program. Using an adolescent-focused format, this protocol identifies psychological, biological and social factors that contribute to the onset of adolescent deviance.

The Juvenile Offender
The Juvenile Offender

Author: Robert D. Hoge

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1461515637

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This book provides a discussion ofadvances in our understanding of the juvenile offender. These derive from psychological and criminological theoryand researchonthe phenomenonofyouth crime and from efforts on the part of social science researchers and practitioners to develop and evaluate new approaches to prevention and treatment. The theoretical and empirical advances relate, first, to analyses of the nature and extent ofyouth crime. This is reflected, for example, in various descriptive and classification systems developed for characterizingjuvenile offenders. Significant advances are also being made in understanding the risk factors associated with youthful criminal activity, as well as the processes linking the risk factors with antisocial behaviors. This understanding is based on theory and research relatingto the correlates andcauses ofdelinquency. The advances in our understanding of the nature, correlates, and causes of juvenile crime are accompanied by progress in analyzing the treatment ofyouth in juvenile justice systems and in developing and evaluating alternative approaches to treatment. These efforts include research on decision-making within juvenile justice systems and the development of screening and assessment tools. This also includes efforts to develop and evaluate effective prevention and treatment programs for use with youths involved in criminal activity and those at risk for this activity.