Juvenile justice in America
Subtitle: problems and prospects
By: [editors]Randall G. Shelden, Daniel Macallair.
Contributors: Shelden, Randall G., 1943-; Macallair, Dan.
Publisher: Waveland Press Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781577665236
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency -- United States.; Juvenile delinquents -- United States.; Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Problems. From houses of refuge to "youth corrections": same story, different day / Randall G. Shelden; title: Jailing minority kids / Randall G. Shelden; title: Testing incapacitation theory: youth crime and incarceration in California / Mike A. Males, Daniel Macallair, and Megan D. Corcoran; title: Aftercare as afterthought: reentry and the California Youth Authority / Michelle Byrnes, Daniel Macallair, and Andrea Shorter; title: Still the "best place to conquer girls": girls and the juvenile justice system / Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin; title: pt. 2. Prospects. Thinking out of the box: the need to do something different / Randall G. Shelden; title: Restructuring juvenile corrections in California / Sele Nadel-Hayes and Daniel Macallair; title: An alternative to detention: the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project / Randall G. Shelden; title: Alternatives to the secure detention and confinement of juvenile offenders / James Austin, Kelly Dedel Johnson, and Ronald Weitzer; title: Innovative programs for girl offenders / Meda Chesney-Lind.