Juvenile Delinquency: ReadingsPine Forge Press, 2001 M02 22 - 650 pages Designed for undergraduate juvenile delinquency courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the field in a format that is accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, and is edited by well-known scholars who are experienced researchers and teachers. * The readings in this anthology have been very carefully edited and pruned by the Editors so that undergraduate students can easily read them without getting bogged down or confused and lost in the technical, methodological details. * At no additional cost, we have included 5 substantial data analysis exercises spread throughout the book. These exercises not only teach students the basic of SPSS, the "standard" data analysis software in social science, but also show them how they can test the delinquency theories and propositions covered in the reader, using current delinquency data packaged with the book. This absolutely unique feature is structured into fill-in-the-blank exercise sets that are easy to grade for large numbers of students by a single instructor. * Over 150 very good questions have been put together for the readings so that instructors can easily test, even in large courses, whether or not their students are keeping up with the reading. * A separate instructor's manual (with more tests) is also available. |
Contents
The Rise of the ChildSaving Movement | 7 |
The Juvenile Court Law in Cook County Illinois 1899 | 13 |
II | 23 |
The Accuracy of Official and SelfReport Measures of Delinquency | 39 |
III | 87 |
Age Sex and Versatility | 93 |
Social Class and Crime | 104 |
School | 131 |
The Role of Peers in the Complex Etiology of Adolescent Drug Use | 302 |
Opportunity Strain and RehabilitationReintegration | 320 |
A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency | 331 |
PRACTICE | 339 |
The Provo Experiment in Delinquency Rehabilitation | 345 |
Social Control Social Development and Prevention | 354 |
The Empirical Status of Hirschis Control Theory | 363 |
PRACTICE | 372 |
Gangs | 141 |
Social Learning Theory SelfReported Delinquency and Youth Gangs | 149 |
Delinquency and Substance Use Among InnerCity Students | 157 |
What Causes Delinquency? | 187 |
Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency | 193 |
PRACTICE | 206 |
A ThirtyYear FollowUp of Treatment Effects | 212 |
PRACTICE | 223 |
Ecology Enculturation and Community Organization | 229 |
PRACTICE | 250 |
Cultural Deviance and Gang Work | 267 |
PRACTICE | 283 |
What to Do? | 392 |
THEORY | 425 |
PRACTICE | 450 |
A An Exploration of Differential AssociationReinforcement Theory 455 | 472 |
Judicial Reform | 496 |
The Legal Legacy | 505 |
The System Legacy | 521 |
The Comparative Advantage of Juvenile Versus Criminal | 548 |
A Critique and a Proposed Alternative | 583 |
Suggested Readings | 631 |
640 | |
Common terms and phrases
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