The Juvenile Justice System Delinquency, Processing, and the Law

The new edition of this text draws on the most current cases and literature in explicating the juvenile justice system. Representative topics include: alternative philosophies for managing juvenile offenders, types of offenders and trends, female versus male delinquency, juveniles and the police, classification and preliminary treatment, prosecutorial decision making in juvenile justice, dispositional alternatives, corrections, probation, and community-based alternatives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR