Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: THE CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF JUVENILE JUSTICE ISSUES -- 1. Maltreatment and Delinquency: Breaking the Cycle of Offending -- 2. Juveniles in Cyberspace: Issues in Enforcement and Parental Controls -- 3. Juvenile Prostitution and Safe Harbor Laws -- PART II: COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS: PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES TO DELINQUENCY -- 4. Drugs in Homes, Schools, and Communities -- 5. School Searches: Balancing Delinquency and Privacy -- PART III: KEEPING YOUTH WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OUT OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM -- 6. Childhood Trauma: The Effects of Abuse and Homelessness -- 7. Children of Incarcerated Parents: Problems and Resilience -- 8. Autism Spectrum Disorders and Juvenile Justice: The Myths of Perpetrators and Victims -- PART IV: RACE, ETHNICITY, DELINQUENCY, AND JUSTICE -- 9. Acculturation, Ethnic Bias, and Explanations of Delinquency -- 10. When Minority Exceeds Majority: Understanding and Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System -- PART V: ADMINISTERING JUSTICE: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO INTERVENE AND TREAT -- 11. Juvenile Incarceration: Risks and Remedies -- 12. What Works with Juveniles Offenders? -- 13. The Future of Delinquency Prevention and Treatment.

"This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today--an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice. Provides insights into juvenile justice from contributors and editors who have extensive experience in teaching, researching, and writing on the subject. Represents an ideal teaching text for courses in juvenile justice--a staple topic in all criminology and criminal justice college programs. Presents analysis and evaluation of techniques used and programs employed, enabling readers to be better advocates for law and policy impacting youth. Supplies updated data and information on policy and law that will serve as a vital resource for students writing papers or scholars teaching in the field of juvenile justice"-- Provided by publisher.

"Perceiving is Believing. Tracing beliefs about the causes of delinquency over time, we find that theories ranged from demons and climate variations to glandular dysfunctions and a lack of wholesome recreational activities. Around the end of World War II, the editors of the Saturday Evening Post wrote that "Sinister effects on the behavior and character of America's children constitute one of the greatest evils of this war. Statistics gathered from a number of places reveal a sharp nationwide increase in juvenile wrong-doing."1 Despite the attraction of explaining delinquency based on contemporary and powerful social events, the problem of delinquency persists, as do some of its basic themes such as the influence of family, friends, learning and economic pressures. In the Gluecks' treatise Delinquents in the Making they state that "The riddle of crime is so puzzling that to arrive at adequate explanations calls for the collaboration of many sciences."2 It is no surprise, then, that the science of criminology and criminal justice is as interdisciplinary as it is controversial"-- Provided by publisher.