NCJ Number
51362
Editor(s)
J E FAUCETT
Date Published
1978
Length
313 pages
Annotation
THIS COMPILATION OF ARTICLES ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION WAS PREPARED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIMINOLOGY.
Abstract
THE ARTICLES ARE ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO 13 SECTIONS: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL COMMENTS; EVALUATION OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PROGRAMS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES; THE COMMUNITY AND THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY; CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, THE FAMILY, AND PEERS; EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL; THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND CRIME, DELINQUENCY, AND CONTROL; CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL AND RELIGION; RECREATION AND CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL; POLICE EFFORTS AND CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL; THE COURT SYSTEM AND CRIME AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL; CORRECTIONS AND ITS ROLE IN PREVENTION AND CONTROL; AND DECRIMINALIZATION. SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO CHANGE, DATA SURVEILLANCE, REHABILITATION, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL WORK, EVALUATION RESEARCH, REALITY THERAPY, FAMILY-FOCUSED COUNSELING, URBAN VIOLENCE, JUVENILE OFFENDERS, LEARNING DISABILITIES, DELINQUENCY PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION, HIGHER EDUCATION AND POLICEMAN, PUBLIC INTERESTS, RACE AND ETHNICITY, OFFENDER DIVERSION, PROBATION, PRISONS, JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS, RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS, AND CRIMINAL CODE AND REFORM AND REVISION. TABLES PRESENT SUPPORTING DATA. (DEP)