Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief historical overview of juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency -- Trends in American youth crime -- Scaling up from juvenile court records to offenses committed -- Reforming juvenile justice through comprehensive community planning -- Early intervention of delinquency and later criminal offending -- Effectiveness of early crime prevention -- From risk identification to risk management : a comprehensive strategy for young children engaging in antisocial behavior -- The power of education in juvenile justice -- Effective programs to reduce school bullying -- Theories of delinquency -- Developmental pathways and life trajectories of delinquency -- Family influences on delinquency -- The late modern world of adolescence and sociological theories of delinquency -- Juvenile justice treatment and policy alternatives -- Screening and assessment of mental health disorders and risk of re-offending among juvenile offenders -- Youth suicide in juvenile justice settings : prevention through empirically based assessment and crisis intervention -- Police responses to criminal and juvenile justice in the 21st century -- State-of-the-art juvenile detention : in search of a new normal -- Therapeutic jurisprudence and juvenile court -- Innovative justice for youth with mental health and substance use disorders : juvenile drug and mental health courts.