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Detailed and comprehensive, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders presents authoritative discussions by a select group of leading scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is responsible for a disproportionate percentage of all crime and poses the greatest challenge to juvenile justice policymakers. Under the skillful editorship of Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington, this unique volume integrates knowledge about risk and protective factors with information about intervention and prevention programs so that conclusions from each area can inform the other. Current literature on these two areas does not, for the most part, apply directly to serious and violent juvenile offenders. This volume contends that serious and violent juvenile offenders tend to start displaying behavior problems and delinquency early in life, warranting early intervention. It is the contributors′ thesis that prevention is never too early. They also maintain, however, that interventions for serious and violent juvenile offenders can never be too late in that effective interventions exist for known serious and violent juvenile offenders.

Augmented by charts, tables, graphs, figures, and an extensive bibliography, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders is an excellent reference work and a must read for policy and lawmakers, judges, attorneys, law enforcement personnel, education administrators, researchers, academics, social workers, sociologists, as well as graduate students and interns.

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• Foreword
• Preface 1
• Preface 2
• Major Aims of the Book
• Part 1 Developmental Course And Risk Factors
• Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
• Race and Ethnicity and Serious Juvenil Offenders
• The Contemporaneous Co-Occurrence of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending and Other Problems
• Development of Serious and Violent Offending Careers
• Predictors of Violent or Serious Delinquency in Adolescence and Early Adulthood
• A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research
• A Review of Predictors of Youth Violence
• Membership in Youth Gangs and Involvement in Serious and Violent Offenders
• Screening of Serious/Violent Juvenile Offenders
• Identification, Classification and Prediction
• Part 2 Preventive Interventions And Graduated Sanctions
• The Prevention of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending
• Comprehensive Community and School-Based Interventions to Prevent Antisocial Behavior
• Promising Programs for Youth Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention
• Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders
• The Impact of the Juvenile Justice System and Prospects for Graduated Sanctions in a Comprehensive Strategy
• Intermediate Sanctions and Community Treatment of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
• Part 3 Concluding Overview
• Serious Violent Juvenile Offenders
• Gaps in Knowledge and Research Priorities
• Conclusions and the Way Forward

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CHOICE Review

Americans are alarmed by potential personal and property injury from juveniles. This threat comes from a small percentage of serious and violent juvenile offenders. Who are these youth, and can the public and agencies intervene to diminish current and future acts? A federal initiative led to the construction of a "study group" of experts to assess research on serious and violent juvenile offenders. This collection represents a multidisciplinary literature survey and sophisticated meta analysis of available international research projects. It is addressed primarily to an audience knowledgeable in research methodology, although some chapters are easily read by nonspecialists. The project and resultant volume review transitions into a conventional research format; define the problem; specify connections with related factors; and examine behavioral interventions and resulting outcomes. Key chapters deal with prediction of violence and gang membership. The volume concludes with an assessment of research needs and policy implications for community members. Extensive bibliography. Graduate, faculty. J. H. Larson University of North Dakota

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Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine (Secondary appointment in Dept. of Psychology) PhD, Queens University Clinical Program, Clinical/Developmental Program Research Interests: Juvenile antisocial behavior and delinquency, substance use, mental health problems