The juvenile justice system
Subtitle: delinquency, processing, and the law
By: Dean John Champion, Alida V. Merlo, Peter J. Benekos
Contributors: Merlo, Alida V.; Benekos, Peter J.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Pearson; Pearson Education
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9780132764469
Subjects: Juvenile courts; Administration of Juvenile justice
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.