Juvenile Delinquency

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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 in 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 40 books, including previous editions of Juvenile Delinquency (Prentice Hall, 2014), Juvenile Justice in America (with Stuart J. Miller; Prentice Hall, 2014), and Women and the Criminal Justice System (with Katherine Stuart van Wormer; Prentice Hall, 2014).

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 master’s and doctoral degrees, with special emphasis in 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 40 books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today (Pearson, 2019), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Pearson, 2018), Criminology Today (Pearson, 2019), Criminology: A Brief Introduction (Pearson, 2018), Criminal Law Today (Pearson, 2014) and Corrections in the Twenty-First Century (with John Smykla; McGraw-Hill, 2017). He is also founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies and has served as imprint adviser for Greenwood Publishing Group’s criminal justice reference series. Visit the author’s website.

Michael G. Turner, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He holds a BS in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University and an MS and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. His research areas center around empirically testing criminological theories, understanding the nature and extent of victimization, and estimating measurement issues related to delinquency and crime.

Dr. Turner has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles in areas such as criminological theory, victimization and crime measurement. He has secured over a million dollars in extramural funding to support his research and, along with his colleagues, published a monograph on The Sexual Victimization of College Women.

NOTE: The Student Value edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version–this format costs significantly less than a new textbook.

For courses in juvenile delinquency.

A sociological exploration of juvenile delinquency – and how to prevent it

Juvenile Delinquency, Student Value Edition, 10/e explores delinquency, including its causes, consequences, and treatments. Unified by a theme of prevention, it analyzes what can be done about delinquent behavior. The text draws on real-life scenarios, statistics, and evidence-based findings to illuminate core influences on delinquency, including gangs, race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The 10th edition has been substantially updated, such as with new information on delinquency over the life course and the most recent studies and statistics relevant to the study of juvenile justice.

Hallmark features of this title

High-level view of delinquency

• Sociological and environmental reasons for delinquency are explored, with emphasis on gender, race, social class and place of residence.
• A theme of delinquency across the life course is woven throughout chapters. The authors examine its origins and why it either evolves or terminates.
• Statistics come from the FBI, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and “Monitoring the Future” study.

Engaging stories

• An ongoing, fictional case study ties themes from the text to the story of a young girl, from childhood to adolescence.
• Voices of Delinquency stories at the start of each chapter personalize delinquency.
• Video case studies at the close of each chapter connect concepts to real-world scenarios.

PART 1: THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF DELINQUENCY
1. Adolescence and Delinquency
2. Measurement and Nature of Delinquency
PART 2: THE CAUSES OF DELINQUENCY
3. Individual Causes of Delinquency
4. Social Theories of Delinquency
5. Social Interactionist Theories of Delinquency
6. Delinquency Across the Life Course
PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON AND THE PREVENTION OF DELINQUENCY
7. Gender and Delinquency
8. Families and Delinquency
9. Schools and Delinquency
10. Gangs and Delinquency
11. Drugs and Delinquency
12. Delinquency Prevention
PART 4: THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
13. Juvenile Justice Process
14. Police and the Juvenile
15. Juvenile Court
16. Juvenile Corrections

New and updated features of this title

The prevention, progression and core issues of delinquency

• NEW: Two new chapters, Delinquency Across the Life Course and Delinquency Prevention, analyze policies and recommendations regarding desistance.
• NEW: The chapter Juvenile Corrections now combines community-based and institutional corrections, providing a more holistic view of correctional strategies for juvenile delinquents.
• UPDATED: Chapter 4, Social Theories of Delinquency, now combines two former chapters: Chapter 3, Social Structure, and Chapter 4, Social Process.

Critical-thinking opportunities

• NEW: What Would You Do sections throughout the text propose situations and challenge students to consider how they might respond to them.
• NEW: Evidence-based findings in many chapters draw on extensive research into best practices for reducing, preventing and treating delinquency in America.
• NEW: Exhibit boxes throughout the text highlight the changing nature of delinquency in the US. They look at responses of the juvenile justice system, with emphasis on the use of technology.