The juvenile justice system
Subtitle: delinquency, processing, and the law
By: Dean John Champion.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
Subjects: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.; Juvenile courts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-570) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to juvenile justice in the United States; title: Measuring delinquency : types of offenders and trends; title: Theories of delinquency; title: An overview of the juvenile justice system; 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.