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Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, juvenile delinquency, acting-out and oppositional behavior, illegal drugs, guns, and youth violence are pervasive throughout American society. Juvenile Justice Sourcebook is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the biopsychosocial assessment, police and juvenile court processing, and institutional and community-based treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. The overriding objective of this sourcebook is to trace the tremendous progress achieved toward resolving juvenile justice issues, dilemmas, and controversies, while providing futuristic visions for the juvenile justice field. Each chapter, authored by preeminent expert practitioners and researchers, explores topics ranging from innovative counseling and multisystemic programs, to restorative justice, to rehabilitation programs such as aggression replacement training, wilderness programs, family treatment, substance abuse treatment, restitution, and aftercare. This volume, grounded in history and exhaustive research, presents the latest evidence-based policies, programs, and innovative treatment alternatives. Examining the entire juvenile justice system, including juvenile law, policies, practices, and research, the Juvenile Justice Sourcebook will be invaluable to all juvenile justice practitioners, policy analysts, researchers, and students. This book has ten special features: 1. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the critical issues, controversies, public policies, and intervention strategies and programs of the juvenile justice system. 2. It features up-to-date and poignant case studies to illustrate and profile juvenile drug dealers, murderers, burglars, mentally ill offenders, auto thieves, violent gang members, runaways, and youths growing up in violent homes. 3. It presents the latest information on prevalence trends and juvenile justice processing and decision-making from arrest to intake, prosecution, adjudication, and case disposition. 4. It features the latest research evidence that indicates that putting juvenile offenders into adult jails and secure juvenile institutions leads many juveniles into committing more serious and violent crimes upon release. 5. It presents the latest longitudinal research evidence on the 10 model programs most likely to reduce recidivism. 6. It provides the latest descriptive information on the types, functions, and legal responsibilities of the various juvenile justice agencies and institutions. 7. It contains a complete discussion ont he landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases on the legal rights of juveniles, including death penalty cases of the past and predictions for the year 2,020. 8. It provides an extensive discussion of the strengths and limitations of institutions, residential treatment centers, group homes, probabtion, family counseling, structured wilderness programs, vocational training programs; and conflict resolution programs in schools, skill-based programs in juvenile detention, group therapy with mentally ill and substance abusing juveniles; and restitution, electronic monitoring, and victim offender mediation programs in probation settings. 9. It includes a detailed glossary of key terms and definitions. 10. It contains 15 photographs.

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• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Contributors(p. xvii)
• Section I Trends, Policies, Critical Issues, and Controversies
• 1 An Overview of Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency: Cases, Definitions, Trends, and Intervention Strategies(p. 5)
• 2 Juvenile Justice Policy: Current Trends and 21st-Century Issues(p. 41)
• 3 Lessons Learned From the Storm of Violence and Inner-City Crime of the 1990s: The Relationship Between Juvenile Crime Trends and Drug Addiction(p. 69)
• 4 School Violence: Prevalence, Policies, and Prevention(p. 101)
• Section II Historical Perspective
• 5 Treating Juveniles in Institutional and Open Settings(p. 129)
• 6 Community Strategies With Juvenile Offenders(p. 147)
• 7 The Emergence of the Juvenile Court and Probation Services(p. 163)
• 8 The Emergence and Proliferation of Juvenile Diversion Programs(p. 183)
• Section III Juvenile Justice Processing
• 9 Police Work With Juveniles: Discretion, Model Programs, and School Police Resource Officers(p. 199)
• 10 Juvenile Detention: Issues for the 21st Century(p. 217)
• 11 Juvenile Court: Bridging the Past and the Future(p. 247)
• 12 Mental Illness and Juvenile Offending(p. 289)
• 13 A Matter of Years: The Juvenile Death Penalty and the United States Supreme Court(p. 309)
• Section IV Research and Innovative Treatment Programs
• 14 Principles and Evidence of the Effectiveness of Family Treatment(p. 339)
• 15 Evidence-Based Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents With Externalizing Disorders: Conduct Disorder and Explosive Anger Case Exemplar(p. 365)
• 16 Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Female Juvenile Delinquency and Gender-Specific Practice(p. 381)
• 17 Structured Wilderness Experiences: Camping, Environmental, and Other Outdoor Rehabilitation Programs(p. 395)
• 18 Juvenile Homicide Encapsulated(p. 423)
• Section V Bridging the Present to the Future
• 19 Balanced and Restorative Justice: Prospects for Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century(p. 467)
• 20 Juvenile Assessment Centers: An Innovative Approach to Identify and Respond to Youth With Substance Abuse and Related Problems Entering the Justice System(p. 511)
• Epilogue: National Survey of Juvenile Offender Treatment Programs That Work(p. 537)
• Glossary(p. 563)
• Name Index(p. 593)
• Subject Index(p. 597)

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CHOICE Review

This set of readings addresses most of the issues related to juvenile justice and is organized into sections on trends and issues, history, processes, treatment, and future directions. The writing level is appropriate for beginning college-level readers and is consistently well organized and coherent. The quality of referencing varies from chapter to chapter, but most chapters are well referenced. Many of the contributing authors are recognized as major scholars in criminology, treatment of juvenile offenders, or juvenile justice. The material is well integrated and the chapters flow a bit better than is usual in a book of readings. There is an adequate glossary. The index is extensive and excellent. Some of the contributing authors make effective use of tables and figures to illustrate their points. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. A basic addition for libraries serving departments of counseling, criminal justice, psychology, social work, and sociology, and for professional libraries maintained by juvenile justice agencies. R. T. Sigler University of Alabama

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Albert R. Roberts is at Rutgers University.