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Designed for undergraduate juvenile delinquency courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the field in a format that is accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, and is edited by well-known scholars who are experienced researchers and teachers. · The readings in this anthology have been very carefully edited and pruned by the Editors so that undergraduate students can easily read them without getting bogged down or confused and lost in the technical, methodological details. · At no additional cost, we have included 5 substantial data analysis exercises spread throughout the book. These exercises not only teach students the basic of SPSS, the "standard" data analysis software in social science, but also show them how they can test the delinquency theories and propositions covered in the reader, using current delinquency data packaged with the book. This absolutely unique feature is structured into fill-in-the-blank exercise sets that are easy to grade for large numbers of students by a single instructor. · Over 150 very good questions have been put together for the readings so that instructors can easily test, even in large courses, whether or not their students are keeping up with the reading.

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• Part 1 What is Delinquency? The History and Definitions of Delinquency
• Inventing the Stubborn Child
• The Rise of the Child-Saving Movement
• The Juvenile Court Law in Cook County Illinois, 1899
• Title 13, Revised Code of Washington: The Juvenile Justice Act, 1994
• Part 2 How is Delinquency Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Delinquency
• Prevalence, Incidence, Rates and Other Descriptive Measures
• The Accuracy of Official and Self-Report Meaures of Delinquency
• Chronic Offenders: The Missing Cases in Self-Report Delinquency Research
• Part 3 Who are The Delinquents? The Distribution and Correlates of Delinquency
• Age, Sex and the Versatility of Delinquent Involvements
• Juvenile Offender Prevalence, Incidence and Arrest Rates by Race
• Social Class and Crime
• Reconsidering the Relationship between SES and Delinquency: Causation but Not Correlation
• Family
• Families and Delinquency: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Broken Homes
• School
• The Effect of Dropping Out of High School on Subsequent Criminal Behavior
• Peers
• Age, Peers, and Delinquency
• Gangs
• Violent Crimes in City Gangs
• Social Learning Theory, Self-Reported Delinquency, and Youth Gangs
• Drugs
• Delinquency and Substance Use Among Inner-City Students
• Part 4 What Causes Delinquency? How is It Controlled? The Interdependence of Theory and Practice
• Psychological Control, Early Identification, and Intervention
• Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency
• Unraveling Families and Delinquency: A Reanalysis of the Gluecks' Data
• The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study
• A Thirty-Year Follow-Up of Treatment Effects
• Risk Factors and Prevention
• Risk Behavior in Adolescence: A Psychosocial Framework for Understanding and Action
• Early Childhood Intervention
• Ecology, Enculturation, and Community Organization
• Deviant Places: A Theory of the Ecology of Crime
• Scoial Disorganization and Theories of Crime and Delinquency
• The Chicago Area Project
• The Chicago Area Project Revisited
• Cutural Deviance and Gang Work
• Lower-Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
• Social Sources of Chinese Gang Delinquency
• Why the United States Has Failed to Solve Its Youth Gang Problem
• Social Learning and Behavior Modification
• A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior
• The Role of Peers in the Complex Etiology of Adolescent Drug Use
• Behavioral Approaches to Treatment in the Crime and Delinquency Field
• Assessing the Effects of School-Based Drug Education: A 6-Year Multilevel Analysis of Project D.A.R.E.
• Opportunity, Strain, and Rehabilitation/Reintegration
• Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior
• A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency
• The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and Mobilization for Youth
• The Provo Experiment in Delinquency Rehabilitation
• Social Control, Social Development, and Prevention
• A Control Theory of Delinquency
• The Empirical Status of Hirschi's Control Theory
• Preventing Delinquency: The Social Development Model
• The Prevention of Serious Delinquency: What to Do?
• Reducing Early Childhood Aggression: Results of a Primary Prevention Program
• Labeling, Diversion, and Radical Nonintervention
• An Overview of Labeling Theory
• The Labeling Perspective and Delinquency: An Elaboration of the Theory and an Assessment of the Evidence
• Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency
• Diversion in Juvenile Justice
• Part 5 Juvenile Justice Reform
• Judicial Reform
• Juvenile Court Theory and Impact in Historical Perspective
• The Legal Legacy
• Beyond Gault: Injustice and the Child
• In re Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court
• The System Legacy
• Responding to Juvenile Crime: Lessons Learned
• Gender Bias in Juvenile Justice Processing: Implications of the JJDP Act
• Race, Gender, and the Prehearing Detention of Juveniles
• The Comparative Advantage of Juvenile Versus Criminal Court Sanctions on Recidivism Among Adolescent Felony Offenders
• The Program Legacy
• An Analysis of Juvenile Correctional Treatment
• Alternative Placements for Juvenile Offenders: Results From the Evaluation of the Nokomis Challenge Program
• A Survey of Juvenile Electronic Monitoring and Home Confinement Programs
• Boot Camps: A Critique and a Proposed Alternative
• Prospects
• The future of Juvenile Justice Policy and Research
• Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy
• Suggested Readings
• Index

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Joseph G. Weis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He served for a number of years as the Director of the National Center for the Assessment of Delinquent Behavior and Its Prevention, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as a member of the Washington State Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. He is a past editor of the journal Criminology and a co-author, with Michael J. Hindelang and Travis Hirschi, of Measuring Delinquency .

Robert D. Crutchfield is Professor and the Clarence and Elissa Schrag Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington where he has been a winner of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. He served on the Washington State Juvenile Sentencing Commission and is also a former juvenile probation officer, adult parole officer, and a deputy editor of Criminology . He is a past Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and currently serves on the National Academies' Committee on Law and Justice. His research focuses on labor markets and crime, and on racial and ethnic disparities in the administration of justice.

George S. Bridges is the President of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has served as a staff member of the policy office of the Attorney General of the United States as well as deputy editor of Criminology . He has been a member of the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He has published many papers on racial biases in American law and is co-editor, with Martha Myers, of Crime, Inequality, and Social Control .