NCJ Number
174181
Editor(s)
M Tonry,
M H Moore
Date Published
1998
Length
533 pages
Annotation
This volume contains 10 articles that review policy issues and research developments concerning crime and violence among the young.
Abstract
Youth violence has become one of the most contentious and perplexing issues in crime policy debates, in part because of the sharp increase in violence among young minority males since the mid-1980s. Congress has provided billions of dollars to the states as an incentive to get tough with juvenile offenders, including the effective abolition of the juvenile court. The book discusses youth violence and related policy issues in the following articles: (1) Youth Violence in America; (2) The Unprecedented Epidemic in Youth Violence; (3) The Social Ecology of Youth Violence; (4) Guns, Youth Violence, and Social Identity in Inner Cities; (5) Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems' Responses to Youth Violence; (6) Prevention of Youth Violence; (7) Curriculum, Culture, and Community: The Challenge of School Violence; (8) Gang Violence in the Postindustrial Era; (9) Predictors, Causes, and Correlates of Male Youth Violence; and (10) Toward a Jurisprudence of Youth Violence. References, notes, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, indexes