Description
Book SynopsisThis sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year institutions.
Taking a sociological approach, Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youth's family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment. The author incorporates contributions from sociologists, psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and other specialists who have sought to understand, explain, control, and prevent juvenile delinquency.
Table of ContentsBrief Table of Contents
Part I: Conformity, Deviance, and Juvenile Delinquency
1: A Sociological Approach to Juvenile Delinquency
2: Dimensions of Juvenile Delinquency
Part II: Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
3: Classical, Biological, and Psychogenic Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency
4: Sociological Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency: Social Strain and Cultural Transmission Theories
5: Sociological Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency: Social Learning and Social Control Theories
6: Sociological Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency: Labeling and Radical/Conflict Theories
7: Sociological Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency: Maturation/Life-Course, Rational Choice/Deterrence and Feminist Theories
Part III: Juvenile Delinquency in a Social Context
8: Family and Juvenile Delinquency
9: Schools and Delinquency
10: Youth Subcultures and Delinquency
11: Juvenile Gangs and Delinquency
Part IV: Applied Theory: Social Control and the Juvenile Justice System
12: Juveniles and the Police
13: Juvenile Courts
14: Juvenile Corrections
Part V: Applied Theory: Strategies for Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency
15: Treatment and Prevention Strategies
16: Rethinking the Delinquency Problem
