" This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the juvenile delinquency problem—its major theories, and the complex processes involved in its causation, prevention, control, and treatment. Issues in Understanding Juvenile Delinquency. The Nature of Delinquency. The Adolescent. The Family. The School and Peers. Biological and Psychological Explanations of Delinquency. Sociological Explanations of Delinquency. Handling the Juvenile ..."
"An overview of the juvenile delinquency problem, the major theories, and the processes involved in its causation, prevention, control and treatment. This fifth edition offers a multidisciplinary approach and contains updated information throughout."
"An overview of the juvenile delinquency problem, the major theories, and the processes involved in its causation, prevention, control and treatment. This fifth edition offers a multidisciplinary approach and contains updated information throughout."
" The first of its kind to integrate theory and “real-world” application in juvenile delinquency, this extensively researched volume addresses today's most current developments and issues, with probing examinations of the extent, nature and origins of American juvenile delinquency; the factors in contemporary life that generate or influence delinquency; and the juvenile justice process and methods for controlling, treating and prevent ..."
"The first edition of this book and Trojanowicz and Bucqueroux's first book on
community policing (Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective) had the
immediate effect of putting into focus the idea that the world of policing is
improvable. In setting forth the philosophy of community policing and the
underlying principles, the authors, Professor Robert Trojanowicz and Bonnie
Bucqueroux, melded the best of policing traditions wi ..."