Juvenile Delinquency (Justice Series)

Description

Hallmark features of this title

Insider perspectives

• Real-life case examples at the end of each chapter pose analytical discussion questions related to chapter content.
• Interviews with major gang leaders offer authentic insight into gang populations. The text includes significant coverage of groups such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).

Critical-thinking features

• Think About It features highlight recent events in juvenile delinquency. They pose questions related to chapter content, promoting discussion and application.
• Critical-thinking boxes explore applications, conflicts and ethical issues pertaining to the most current news.

For courses in juvenile delinquency.

Brief. Affordable. Visual.
Part of the groundbreaking Justice Series, Juvenile Delinquency is a clear, thought-provoking exploration of core concepts, the latest research, and current events shaping juvenile delinquency today. Built to be affordable without sacrificing academic rigor, the series uses eye-catching visuals and conversation-starting pedagogy to move students beyond memorization to true understanding. Voices of Delinquency stories at the start of each chapter expose the real impact of criminal justice policy. The 3rd edition has extensive new content and visuals covering the major influencers on juvenile justice and includes a large new section on the philosophy underlying community-based correction.

Juvenile Delinquency, 3rd Edition, is also available via Revel^®, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Learn more.

PART 1: THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF DELINQUENCY
1. Adolescence and Delinquency
2. The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency
PART 2: CAUSES OF DELINQUENCY
3. Individual Causes of Delinquency
4. Social Structural and Social Process Theories of Delinquency
5. Social Interactionist Theories of Delinquency
PART 3: ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON DELINQUENCY
6. Gender and Delinquency
7. Families and Delinquency
8. Schools and Delinquency
9. Gangs and Delinquency
10. Drugs, Delinquency, and Special Juvenile Offender Populations
PART 4: THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
11. An Overview of Juvenile Justice in America
12. Police and the Juvenile
13. Juvenile Court
14. Juvenile Corrections

Brief. Affordable. Visual.
Part of the groundbreaking Justice Series, Juvenile Delinquency is a clear, thought-provoking exploration of core concepts, the latest research, and current events shaping juvenile delinquency today. Built to be affordable without sacrificing academic rigor, the series uses eye-catching visuals and conversation-starting pedagogy to move you beyond memorization to true understanding. Voices of Delinquency stories at the start of each chapter expose the real impact of criminal justice policy. The 3rd edition has extensive new content and visuals covering the major influencers on juvenile justice and includes a large new section on the philosophy underlying community-based correction.
Juvenile Delinquency, 3rd Edition, is also available via Revel^®, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.

New and updated features of this title

Compelling learning aids

• NEW: Voices of Delinquency stories at the start of each chapter give students insight into the real experiences of juvenile offenders.
• UPDATED: Engaging infographics, flow charts and pull-out statistics flow with the text. They provide context, while promoting student engagement, recall and understanding.

Topical updates

• NEW: A new study on female offenders appears in Chapter 6. The chapter also now includes a revised section on gender bias and new material on reducing the institutional victimization of girls.
• NEW: Chapter 10 has been retitled Special Juvenile Offender Populations. It includes new sections on juvenile sex offenders, the gang delinquent, the violent juvenile, special needs youthful offenders, offenders with mental illness, and homeless youth.
• NEW: A new discussion of evidence-based practice appears in Chapter 11.
• NEW: Content on Baltimore Police youth programs in Chapter 12 includes a new section on police attitudes toward juveniles.

About our authors

Clemens Bartollas, PhD, is professor of sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. He holds a BA from Davis and Elkins College, a BD from Princeton Theological Seminary, an STM from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a PhD in sociology, with a special emphasis on criminology, from The Ohio State University. Dr. Bartollas taught at Pembroke State University from 1973 to 1975, at Sangamon State University from 1975 to 1980 and at the University of Northern Iowa from 1981 to the present. He has received honors at the University of Northern Iowa, including Distinguished Scholar, the Donald McKay Research Award and the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. Dr. Bartollas, like his coauthor, is also the author of numerous articles and more than 30 books, including previous editions of Juvenile Delinquency (Allyn & Bacon, 2006), Juvenile Justice in America (with Stuart J. Miller; Prentice Hall, 2011) and Women and the Criminal Justice System (with Katherine Stuart van Wormer; Prentice Hall, 2011).

Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and both masters (1970) and doctoral (1974) degrees, with special emphasis on sociology, from The Ohio State University. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminology and criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke; for the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university’s Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice. The university named him Distinguished Professor in 1991. Dr. Schmalleger has taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research, helping to build the world’s first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Schmalleger helped develop the university’s graduate programs in administration of justice as well as security administration and loss prevention and taught courses in those curricula for over a decade. A strong advocate of web-based instruction, Dr. Schmalleger is also the creator of numerous award-winning websites. Dr. Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and more than 30 books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today (Prentice Hall, 2021), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2020), Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 2021), Criminology: A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2020), Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall, 2017) and Corrections in the Twenty-First Century (with John Smykla; McGraw-Hill, 2020). He is also the founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies and has served as an imprint adviser for Greenwood Publishing Groups criminal justice reference series. Visit the author’s website.

Matthew Makarios, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his BA in criminology from the University of Minnesota Duluth, his MA in criminal justice from Washington State University, and his PhD in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati.