Synopses & Reviews
Features of The Juvenile Justice System, Sixth Edition include:
• Up-to-date and interesting box materials supplementing the text, featuring key topics and contemporary themes of different aspects of juvenile justice, including school violence, drugs, and psychologically disturbed youths
• Interesting career snapshots from practitioners and scholars who work in the juvenile justice system or do research about juveniles
• Relevant and interesting Internet sites listed at the end of chapters for all topics discussed, including where to find important information for research and other purposes
• Comprehensive discussion of the juvenile justice system, including the legal rights of juveniles, landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, and the death penalty for juveniles
• Elaborate description of how juvenile offenders are classified and processed, including the status offender/delinquent distinction and the deinstitutionalization movement
• Comprehensive discussion of juvenile corrections, including electronic monitoring, home confinement, and numerous community corrections programs
• Extensive discussion of police-juvenile relations and law enforcement options relating to juvenile offenders
• Coverage of classification systems for juvenile offenders and the decision making process relating to their placement in the community or secure care
• Discussion of the jail removal initiative and events related to housing juveniles in adult jails and prisons
• The most extensive, accurate, and up-to-date description available of types of waivers, transfers, and certification proceedings against juveniles and how these procedures interface with the criminal justice system
• Extensive explanation and description of contemporary blended sentencing statutes and recent changes concerning how violent juvenile offenders are processed
Synopsis
A market-leader, The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law explores all aspects of juvenile justice–from arrest, intake, adjudicatory hearings, dispositions and aftercare. Known for its depth of coverage, it maintains a legal emphasis and covers the legal rights of juveniles and landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases. Up-to-date tables, figures and statistics give readers the most current perspective of juvenile justice trends. Chapter-opening scenarios, personality highlights and career snapshots use personal accounts to capture the essence of what it means to be part of the juvenile justice system. For courses in Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency
About the Author
Dean John Champion is Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas A & M International University; Laredo, Texas. Dr. Champion has taught at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, California State University-Long Beach, and Minot State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University and B.S. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University. He also completed several years of law school at the Nashville School of Law.
Dr. Champion has written over 35 texts and/or edited works and maintains memberships in eleven professional organizations. He is a lifetime member of the American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the American Sociological Association. He is a former editor of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Anderson Publishing Company Series on Issues in Crime and Justice and the Journal of Crime and Justice. He is a contributing author for the Encarta Encyclopedia 2000 for Microsoft. He has been a Visiting Scholar for the National Center for Juvenile Justice and is a former president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association. He has also designed and/or offered numerous online courses for the University of Phoenix, Excelsior University, and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Among his published books for Prentice-Hall include Administration of Criminal Justice: Structure, Function, and Process (2003); Basic Statistics for Social Research (1970, 1981); Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology 3/e (1993, 2000, 2006); The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law 4/e (1992, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 forthcoming); Corrections in the United States: A Contemporary Perspective 4/e (1990, 1998, 2001, 2005); Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections 5/e (1990, 1996, 1999, 2005); Policing in the Community (w/George Rush) (1996); and The Administration of Justice Systems (2001).
Dr. Champion's specialty interests include juvenile justice, criminal justice administration, corrections, and statistics/methods.
Table of Contents
PART I: THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, MEASURING DELINQUENCY, AND DELINQUENCY THEORIES
1. An Introduction to Juvenile Justice in the United States
2. Measuring Delinquency: Types of Offenders and Trends
3. Theories of Delinquency
4. An Overview of the Juvenile Justice System
PART II: THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF JUVENILES AND PREADJUDICATORY PROCESSING
5. The Legal Rights of Juveniles
6. Juveniles and the Police
7. Intake and Preadjudicatory Processing
PART III: PROSECUTORIAL DECISION MAKING, CLASSIFICATION, AND THE ADJUDICATORY PROCESS
8. Prosecutorial Decision Making in Juvenile Justice
9. Classification and Preliminary Treatment: Waivers and Other Alternatives
10. The Adjudicatory Process: Dispositional Alternatives
PART IV: JUVENILE DISPOSITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
11. Nominal Sanctions: Warnings, Diversion, and Alternative Dispute Resolution
12. Juvenile Probation and Intermediate Punishments
13. Juvenile Corrections: Custodial Sanctions and Parole
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