The juvenile justice system
Subtitle: delinquency, processing, and the law
By: Dean John Champion.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States; Juvenile courts -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of juvenile justice in the United States; title: The history of juvenile justice and origins of the juvenile court; title: Theories of delinquency and intervention programs; title: The legal rights of juveniles; title: Juveniles and the police; title: Intake and preadjudicatory processing; title: Prosecutorial decision making in juvenile justice; title: Classification and preliminary treatment: waivers and other alternatives; title: The adjudicatory process : dispositional alternatives; title: Nominal sanctions : warnings, diversion, and alternative dispute resolution; title: Juvenile probation and community-based corrections; title: Juvenile corrections : custodial sanctions and parole.