NCJ Number
134207
Date Published
1988
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This bibliography focuses on the causes of juvenile delinquency, prevention, and rehabilitation programs and also has a section on juvenile courts and corrections.
Abstract
The 31 citations on juvenile delinquency and its causes and prevention cover the period from 1983 to 1988. Citations focus on family influences, marijuana use, problem behaviors, the school environment, adolescent perspectives on the relation between drugs and crime, juvenile justice, teenage curfews, gangs, the nature of delinquency, treatment issues such as social learning, the effect of dropping out of high school on subsequent criminal behavior, and juvenile delinquency legislation and programs. The 16 citations on juvenile courts and corrections deal with such topics as community policing, chronic juvenile offenders, attitudes toward juvenile crime, deinstitutionalization, preventive detention and pretrial custody, legal rights of minors, juvenile offender sentencing, minority youth incarceration, the law and social control in juvenile dispositions, restitution, and juvenile justice reform.