Youth crime in America
Subtitle: a modern synthesis
By: Roy Lotz.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making youth crime into a social issue; title: Official data, self-reports, and victim surveys; title: American adolescence today; title: Individualistic theories of youth crime; title: Chicago school and strain/anomie theories; title: Social control, routine activities, and sensation seeking; title: The family and youth crime; title: Schools and youth crime; title: Peers and youth crime; title: The police and youth crime; title: Youth and the juvenile court; title: Corrections and prevention.