Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law / Edition 11

by Larry J. Siegel, Brandon C. Welsh

Overview

Unrivaled in its current coverage of topics, the twelfth edition of best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW provides you with timely coverage of theory, policy, and the latest research. Praised for its balanced approach and for the authors' engaging writing style, this book will help you understand the nature of delinquency and its causes, as well as current strategies being used to control or eliminate its occurrence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781111346898
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	06/21/2011
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended Christopher Columbus High School and then NYU and City College (CCNY). After graduating with a degree in sociology, he was admitted to the Ph.D. program in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany. Three years later he landed a teaching job in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, where he served for nine years. He also held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska, Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UML). In all, he taught professionally for 45 years. During his career, Larry published 16 books on topics such as juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, courts, corrections, criminal justice and criminal procedure, and he is currently working on a book covering policing in America. He is a court-certified expert and has testified and consulted in numerous legal cases involving police misconduct and/or failure to act.


Brandon C. Welsh is a Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement in Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England. His research interests focus on the prevention of crime and delinquency and evidence-based social policy. Dr. Welsh has published extensively in these areas and is an author or editor of ten books.

Table of Contents

Part I: THE CONCEPT OF DELINQUENCY. 1. Childhood and Delinquency. 2. The Nature and Extent of Delinquency. Part II: THEORIES OF DELINQUENCY. 3. Individual Views of Delinquency. 4. Social Structure, Process, Culture, and Delinquency. 5. Social Reaction, Social Conflict, and Delinquency. 6. Developmental Theories of Delinquency: Life Course, Latent Trait, and Trajectory. Part III: SOCIAL, COMMUNITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON DELINQUENCY. 7. Gender and Delinquency. 8. The Family and Delinquency. 9. Peers and Delinquency: Juvenile Gangs and Groups. 10. Schools and Delinquency. 11. Drug Use and Delinquency. 12. Delinquency Prevention: Social and Developmental Perspectives. Part IV: THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM. 13. Juvenile Justice: Then and Now. 14. Police Work with Juveniles. 15. Juvenile Court Process: Pretrial, Trial, and Sentencing. 16. Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community Treatment, and Institutionalization. 17. Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Abroad.