Juvenile Delinquency and Delinquents
Subtitle: The Nexus of Social Change (Masters Series in Criminology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: November 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780135127377
Subjects: Juvenile offenders; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Sociology; Criminology; Jurisprudence; Law / Jurisprudence; Juvenile Delinquency; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Social work with juvenile delinquents
Description: This volume presents a brief introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency refers to children who act against the law. The authors present information on the historical contexts of juvenile delinquency, the evolution of the juvenile court system, using data to measure different aspects of juvenile delinquency, how wide spread juvenile delinquency is in our communities, various theories and explanations of juvenile delinquency, ways that society tries to control juvenile delinquency, and the prognosis of controlling juvenile delinquency in the future.