Description
Book SynopsisAbout 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 Syste
Table of Contents
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
