Synopses & Reviews
Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, juvenile delinquency, acting-out and oppositional behavior, illegal drugs, guns, and youth violence are pervasive throughout American society.
Juvenile Justice Sourcebook is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the biopsychosocial assessment, police and juvenile court processing, and institutional and community-based treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. The overriding objective of this sourcebook is to trace the tremendous progress achieved toward resolving juvenile justice issues, dilemmas, and controversies, while providing futuristic visions for the juvenile justice field. Each chapter, authored by preeminent expert practitioners and researchers, explores topics ranging from innovative counseling and multisystemic programs, to restorative justice, to rehabilitation programs such as aggression replacement training, wilderness programs, family treatment, substance abuse treatment, restitution, and aftercare.
This volume, grounded in history and exhaustive research, presents the latest evidence-based policies, programs, and innovative treatment alternatives. Examining the entire juvenile justice system, including juvenile law, policies, practices, and research, the Juvenile Justice Sourcebook will be invaluable to all juvenile justice practitioners, policy analysts, researchers, and students.
This book has ten special features:
1. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the critical issues, controversies, public policies, and intervention strategies and programs of the juvenile justice system.
2. It features up-to-date and poignant case studies to illustrate and profile juvenile drug dealers, murderers, burglars, mentally ill offenders, auto thieves, violent gang members, runaways, and youths growing up in violent homes.
3. It presents the latest information on prevalence trends and juvenile justice processing and decision-making from arrest to intake, prosecution, adjudication, and case disposition.
4. It features the latest research evidence that indicates that putting juvenile offenders into adult jails and secure juvenile institutions leads many juveniles into committing more serious and violent crimes upon release.
5. It presents the latest longitudinal research evidence on the 10 model programs most likely to reduce recidivism.
6. It provides the latest descriptive information on the types, functions, and legal responsibilities of the various juvenile justice agencies and institutions. 7. It contains a complete discussion ont he landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases on the legal rights of juveniles, including death penalty cases of the past and predictions for the year 2,020.
8. It provides an extensive discussion of the strengths and limitations of institutions, residential treatment centers, group homes, probabtion, family counseling, structured wilderness programs, vocational training programs; and conflict resolution programs in schools, skill-based programs in juvenile detention, group therapy with mentally ill and substance abusing juveniles; and restitution, electronic monitoring, and victim offender mediation programs in probation settings.
9. It includes a detailed glossary of key terms and definitions.
10. It contains 15 photographs.
Review
"A valuable book for students in criminal justice and the helping professions."--Donna M. Bishop, PhD, Professor, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, and Editor, Justice Quarterly
"I would characterize this timeliness, focus, and content of this book as superior to all of the other juvenile justice books published in the past 10 years."--James A. Inciardi, PhD, Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Delaware
"Professor Roberts has created a comprehensive resource on juvenile justice that elegantly combines the practical and the theoretical."--John E.B. Myers, JD, Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California
"The Juvenile Justice Sourcebook, compiled and edited by Professor Al Roberts, is without a doubt the most comprehensive overview of this field..."--Richard H. Ward, PhD, Dean and Director, College of Criminal Justice and International Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University of Texas
"This outstanding book [is] required reading for anyone interested in this important, controversial, and complex issue."--Michael Jacobson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Corrections Concentration, Department of Law, Police Science, and Corrections, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of CUNY, and Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Probation
Table of Contents
Foreword L.J. MoriartyContributors
SECTION I. Trends, Policies, Critical Issues, and Controversies
1. An Overview of Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency: Cases, Definitions, Trends, and Intervention Strategies, A.R. Roberts
2. Juvenile Justice Policy: Current Trends and 21st-Century Issues, C.A. McNeece and S. Jackson
3. Lessons Learned from the Storm of Violence and Inner-City Crime of the 1990s: The Relationship Between Juvenile Crime Trends and Drug Addiction, A.R. Roberts and K.R. Yeager
4. School Violence: Prevalence, Policies, and Prevention, L. Hunter, G. MacNeil, and M. Elias
SECTION II. Historical Perspective
5. Treating Juveniles in Institutional and Open Settings, A.R. Roberts
6. Community Strategies With Juvenile Offenders, A.R. Roberts
7. The Emergence of the Juvenile Court and Probation Services, A.R. Roberts
8. The Emergence and Proliferation of Juvenile Diversion Programs, A.R. Roberts
SECTION III. Juvenile Justice Processing
9. Police Work with Juveniles: Discretion, Model Programs, and School Police Resource Officers, W.J. Flynn and B. McDonough
10. Juvenile Detention: Issues for the 21st Century, D.W. Roush
11. Juvenile Court: Bridging the Past and the Future, C.J. Petrucci and H.T. Rubin
12. Mental Illness and Juvenile Offending, L. Paglicci and A.R. Roberts
13. A Matter of Years: The Juvenile Death Penalty and the United States Supreme Court, K.C. Haas
SECTION IV. Research and Innovative Treatment Programs
14. Principles and Evidence of the Effectiveness of Family Treatment, C.J. Petrucci and A.R. Roberts
15. Evidence-Based Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents with Externalizing Disorders: Conduct Disorder and Explosive Anger Case Exemplar, D.W. Springer
16. Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Female Juvenile Delinquency and Gender-Specific Practice, S.K. Okamoto and M. Chesney-Lind
17. Structured Wilderness Experiences: Camping, Environmental, and Other Outdoor Rehabilitation Programs, A.R. Roberts
18. Young Killers Excapsulated, K.M. Heide
SECTION V. Bridging the Present to the Future
19. Balanced and Restorative Justice: Prospects for Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century, G. Bazemore and M. Umbreit
20. Juvenile Assessment Centers: An Innovative Approach to Identify and Respond to Youth with Substance Abuse and Related Problems Entering the Justice System, R. Dembo, J. Schmeidler, and W. Walters
EPILOGUE: National Survey of Juvenile Offender Treatment Programs That Work A.R. Roberts
Glossary E.R. Levine
Author Index
Subject Index