| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 384 pages) : illustrations, charts |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control, Committee on Law and Justice, and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, and Institute of Medicine." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Patterns and trends in juvenile crime and juvenile justice -- The development of delinquency -- Preventing juvenile crime -- The juvenile justice system -- Race, crime, and juvenile justice: the issue of racial disparity. |
| Summary |
Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and other sensational incidents add to the furor. Often overlooked are the underlying problems of child poverty, social disadvantage, and the pitfalls inherent to adolescent decisionmaking that contribute to youth crime. From a policy standpoint, adolescent offenders are caught in the crossfire between nurturance of youth and punishment of criminals, between rehabilitation and "get tough" pronouncements. In the midst of this emotional debate, the National Research Council's Panel on Juvenile Crime steps forward with an authoritative review of the best available data and analysis. Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents recommendations for addressing the many aspects of America's youth crime problem. This timely release discusses patterns and trends in crimes by children and adolescents--trends revealed by arrest data, victim reports, and other sources; youth crime within general crime; and race and sex disparities. The book explores desistance--the probability that delinquency or criminal activities decrease with age--and evaluates different approaches to predicting future crime rates. Why do young people turn to delinquency? Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice presents what we know and what we urgently need to find out about contributing factors, ranging from prenatal care, differences in temperament, and family influences to the role of peer relationships, the impact of the school policies toward delinquency, and the broader influences of the neighborhood and community. Equally important, this book examines a range of solutions: Prevention and intervention efforts directed to individuals, peer groups, and families, as well as day care-, school- and community-based initiatives; Intervention within the juvenile justice system; Role of the police; Processing and detention of youth offenders; Transferring youths to the adult judicial system; [and] Residential placement of juveniles. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Juvenile delinquency -- United States.
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Juvenile delinquency. |
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United States. |
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McCord, Joan.
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Widom, Cathy Spatz, 1945-
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Crowell, Nancy A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Juvenile crime, juvenile justice. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001001248 |
| ISBN |
9780309504287 electronic book |
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0309504287 electronic book |
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0309068428 (hardcover) |
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9780309068420 (hardcover) |
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