Juvenile Justice System, The: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law (7e)

For courses in Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency.

A market-leader, The Juvenile Justice System, 7e, follows a true-to-life focus, capturing the essence of what it means to be part of the juvenile justice system through personality highlights, career snapshots, and personal accounts. The text provides a thorough examination of the juvenile justice system through easy-to-understand descriptions and discussions of policy, practice, and procedure in juvenile justice. It covers the entire process from arrest, intake, and adjudicatory hearings, to dispositions, and aftercare. This includes up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of historical, applied, theoretical, and legal information about the juvenile justice system and juvenile delinquency.

Chapter 1 An Overview of Juvenile Justice in the United States

Chapter 2 The History of Juvenile Justice and Origins of the Juvenile Court

Chapter 3 Theories of Delinquency and Intervention Programs

Chapter 4 The Legal Rights of Juveniles

Chapter 5 Juveniles and the Police

Chapter 6 Intake and Preadjudicatory Processing

Chapter 7 Prosecutorial Decision Making in Juvenile Justice

Chapter 8 Classification and Preliminary Treatment: Waivers and Other Alternatives

Chapter 9 The Adjudicatory Process: Dispositional Alternatives

Chapter 10 Nominal Sanctions: Warnings, Diversion, and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Chapter 11 Juvenile Probation and Community-Based Corrections

Chapter 12 Juvenile Corrections: Custodial Sanctions and Aftercare

• the use of evidence-based programs and best practices
• legislative and Court decisions on the rights and protections of adolescent offenders
• policy changes from punitive to restorative justice
• reemphasis on the mission and intent of the juvenile justice system

• recent Supreme Court cases
• new research on adolescent brain development
• developments in disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the juvenile justice system
• policy shifts in juvenile justice 

New! New Career Snapshots—highlight the career paths and backgrounds of real juvenile justice professionals.

• Students see how real people build fulfilling careers in juvenile justice. 

• Each chapter includes online references for timely sources of data, policy, and research.

For courses in Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency.

A market-leader, The Juvenile Justice System, 7e, follows a true-to-life focus, capturing the essence of what it means to be part of the juvenile justice system through personality highlights, career snapshots, and personal accounts. The text provides a thorough examination of the juvenile justice system through easy-to-understand descriptions and discussions of policy, practice, and procedure in juvenile justice. It covers the entire process from arrest, intake, and adjudicatory hearings, to dispositions, and aftercare. This includes up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of historical, applied, theoretical, and legal information about the juvenile justice system and juvenile delinquency.

Guides students through juvenile justice procedures—including intake, adjudication, dispositions, juvenile probation, parole, and community corrections.

• Shows readers the steps involved with processing a juvenile offender.
• Covers all levels of offenders and clearly delineates the differences between status offenses and delinquent offenses. 

Provides everything students need in an introductory course—by combining complete coverage of juvenile justice with student-friendly readability.

• Succinct coverage hits all the important points and keeps students reading. 

Gives students hands-on experience in the field—via dozens of practical examples and personal accounts.

• Chapter-opening scenarios are based on the real-life experiences of juveniles.
• Personality Highlights and Career Snapshots feature professionals such as a juvenile court judge, a juvenile probation and parole officer, and a juvenile counselor. 

Promotes understanding by providing legal and historical context—helping students understand how the juvenile justice system has evolved to its current state.

• Includes early legal cases, landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, current juvenile cases, and select state court cases to show the legal bases for decisions about juveniles.
• Discusses the different rights juveniles have acquired and how different components of the juvenile justice system relate to them.