Young offenders and youth justice
Subtitle: a century after the fact
By: Sandra J. Bell
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780176252700
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Textbooks; Administration of Juvenile justice; Délinquance juvénile; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Justice pour mineurs; Administration
Notes: Previous eds. published under title: Young offenders and juvenile justice.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 385-427.
Table of contents: title: 1. The rise and fall of delinquency; title: 2. Creating a juvenile justice system: then and now; title: 3. The "facts" of youth crime; title: 4. The social face of youth crime; title: 5. Explaining crime and delinquency: in the beginning...; title: 6. Different directions in theorizing about youth crime and delinquency; title: 7. Family, school, peers and the youth crime problem; title: 8. First contact: police and diversionary measures; title: 9. Going to court; title: 10. Youth corrections: going to jail; title: 11. Perpetuating social injustice; title: 12. A century after the fact: what do we know? Where are we going?