NCJ Number
166807
Date Published
1997
Length
143 pages
Annotation
This instructor's manual on juvenile delinquency covers historical, cultural, and legal perspectives, as well as topics related to legislation, prevention, the link between violence in the media and juvenile delinquency, the role of the community in rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency theories, and juvenile delinquency measurement methods.
Abstract
Each manual chapter contains an introductory statement of the goal and methods for achieving that goal, along with appropriate questions. Initial chapters cover the definition and extent of juvenile delinquency and offer a historical perspective on juvenile offenses. Subsequent chapters focus on classical, rational choice, lifestyle, and constitutional theories of juvenile delinquency; psychiatric, psychological, and intelligence theories; ecological, strain, anomie, subcultural, labeling, and shaming theories; and conflict, learning, control, and integrated theories. Additional chapters address the juvenile justice system in the United States, juvenile courts, juvenile detention and parole, institutionalization, the community as a resource in the treatment of juvenile delinquency, the treatment of juvenile offenders in other countries, female juvenile delinquency, media violence and juvenile delinquency, and hard core juvenile delinquency. Constitutional and legislative information on juvenile delinquency is appended.