Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency
Subtitle: A Comprehensive Framework
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: February 26, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780761925088
Subjects: Juvenile offenders; Sociology - General; Prevention; Social Science; Youth and violence; Sociology; Violent crimes; United States; Children's Studies; Criminology; Violence in Society; Social Science / Criminology; Juvenile delinquency
First sentence: An unprecedented juvenile violence "epidemic" is said to have occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s (Blumstein, 1995a, 1995b; Cook &amp; Laub, 1998; Fox, 1996b).