Table of Contents:
  • I: Trends, policies, critical issues, and controversies
  • An overview of juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency; Cases, definitions, trends, and intervention strategies / Albert R. Roberts
  • Juvenile justice policy; Current trends and 21st-century issues / C. Aaron McNeece and Sherry Jackson
  • Lessons learned from the storm of violence and inner-city crime of the 1990s; The relationship between juvenile crime trends and drug addiction / Albert R. Roberts and Kenneth R. Yeager
  • School violence; Prevalence, policies, and prevention / Lisa Hunter, Gordon MacNeil, and Maurice Elias
  • II: Historical perspective
  • Treating juveniles in institutional and open settings / Albert R. Roberts
  • Community strategies with juvenile offenders / Albert R. Roberts
  • The emergence of the juvenile court and probation services / Albert R. Roberts
  • The emergence and proliferation of juvenile diversion programs / Albert R. Roberts
  • III: Juvenile justice processing
  • Police work with juveniles; Discretion, model programs, and school police resource officers / William J. Flynn and Brian McDonough
  • Juvenile detention; Issues for the 21st century / David W. Roush
  • Juvenile court; Bridging the past and the future / Carrie J. Petrucci and H. Ted Rubin
  • Mental illness and juvenile offending / Lisa Rapp-Palicchi and Albert R. Roberts
  • A matter of years; The juvenile death penalty and the United States supreme court / Kenneth C. Haas
  • IV: Research and innovative treatment programs
  • Principles and evidence of the effectiveness of family treatment / Carrie J. Petrucci and Albert R. Roberts
  • Evidence-based treatment of juvenile delinquents with externalizing disorders; Conduct disorder and explosive anger case exemplar / David W. Springer
  • Understanding the impact of trauma on female juvenile delinquency and gender-specific practice / Scott K. Okamoto and Meda Chesney-Lind
  • Structured wilderness experiences; Camping, environmental, and other outdoor rehabilitation programs / Albert R. Roberts
  • Juvenile homicide encapsulated / Kathleen M. Heide
  • V: Bridging the present to the future
  • Balanced and restorative justice; Prospects for juvenile justice in the 21st century / Gordon Bazemore and Mark Umbreit
  • Juvenile assessment centers; An innovative approach to identify and respond to youth with substance abuse and related problems entering the justice system / Richard Dembo, James Schmeidler, and Wansley Walters
  • National survey of juvenile offender treatment programs that work / Albert R. Roberts.