PART ONE: WHAT IS DELINQUENCY? THE HISTORY AND DEFINITIONS OF DELINQUENCY
J. Sutton
Inventing the Stubborn Child
A. Platt
The Rise of the Child-Saving Movement
Hon. R.S. Tuthill
The Juvenile Court Law in Cook County Illinois, 1899
Title 13, Revised Code of Washington: The Juvenile Justice Act, 1994
PART TWO: HOW IS DELINQUENCY MEASURED? THE OBSERVATION AND MEASUREMENT OF DELINQUENCY
P.E. Tracy, Jr.
Prevalence, Incidence, Rates and Other Descriptive Measures
M. J. Hindelang, et al
The Accuracy of Official and Self-Report Meaures of Delinquency
S.A. Cernkovich, et al
Chronic Offenders: The Missing Cases in Self-Report Delinquency Research
PART THREE: WHO ARE THE DELINQUENTS? THE DISTRIBUTION AND CORRELATES OF DELINQUENCY
Age, Sex and the Versatility of Delinquent Involvements |
M.J. Hindelang |
Juvenile Offender Prevalence, Incidence and Arrest Rates by Race |
D. Huizinga & D.S. Elliot |
Social Class and Crime |
J.G. Weis |
Reconsidering the Relationship between SES and Delinquency: Causation but Not Correlation |
B.R. Entner Wright, et al |
Family
Families and Delinquency: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Broken Homes |
L.E. Wells & J.H. Rankin |
School
The Effect of Dropping Out of High School on Subsequent Criminal Behavior |
T.P. Thornberry, et al |
Peers
Age, Peers, and Delinquency |
M. Warr |
Gangs
Violent Crimes in City Gangs |
W.B. Miller |
Social Learning Theory, Self-Reported Delinquency, and Youth Gangs |
L.T. Winfree, Jr., et al |
Drugs
Delinquency and Substance Use Among Inner-City Students |
J. Fagan, et al |
PART FOUR: WHAT CAUSES DELINQUENCY? HOW IS IT CONTROLLED? THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
Psychological Control, Early Identification, and Intervention
Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency |
S. Glueck & E. Glueck |
Unraveling Families and Delinquency: A Reanalysis of the Gluecks' Data |
J.H. Laub & R.J. Sampson |
The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study |
E. Powers & S. Witmer |
A Thirty-Year Follow-Up of Treatment Effects |
J. McCord |
Risk Factors and Prevention
Risk Behavior in Adolescence: A Psychosocial Framework for Understanding and Action |
R. Jessor |
Early Childhood Intervention |
E.Zigler, et al |
Ecology, Enculturation, and Community Organization
Deviant Places: A Theory of the Ecology of Crime |
R. Stark |
Scoial Disorganization and Theories of Crime and Delinquency |
R.J. Bursik, Jr. |
The Chicago Area Project |
S. Kobrin |
The Chicago Area Project Revisited |
S. Schlossman & M. Sedlak |
Cutural Deviance and Gang Work
Lower-Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency |
W.B. Miller |
Social Sources of Chinese Gang Delinquency |
K.L. Chin |
Why the United States Has Failed to Solve Its Youth Gang Problem |
W.B. Miller |
Social Learning and Behavior Modification
A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior |
R.L. Burgess & R.L. Akers |
The Role of Peers in the Complex Etiology of Adolescent Drug Use |
R.E. Johnson, et al |
Behavioral Approaches to Treatment in the Crime and Delinquency Field |
C.J. Braukmann, et al |
Assessing the Effects of School-Based Drug Education: A 6-Year Multilevel Analysis of Project D.A.R.E. |
D.P. Rosenbaum & G.S. Hanson |
Opportunity, Strain, and Rehabilitation/Reintegration
Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior |
R.A. Cloward |
A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency |
R. Agnew |
The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and Mobilization for Youth |
J.F. Short, Jr. |
The Provo Experiment in Delinquency Rehabilitation |
L.T. Empey & J. Rabow |
Social Control, Social Development, and Prevention
A Control Theory of Delinquency |
T. Hirschi |
The Empirical Status of Hirschi's Control Theory |
K.L. Kempf |
Preventing Delinquency: The Social Development Model |
J.G. Weis & J.D. Hawkins |
The Prevention of Serious Delinquency: What to Do? |
J.G. Weis & J. Sederstrom |
Reducing Early Childhood Aggression: Results of a Primary Prevention Program |
J.D. Hawkins, et al |
Labeling, Diversion, and Radical Nonintervention
An Overview of Labeling Theory |
E. Schur |
The Labeling Perspective and Delinquency: An Elaboration of the Theory and an Assessment of the Evidence |
R. Paternoster & L. Iovanni |
Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency |
R.L. Matsueda |
Diversion in Juvenile Justice |
E.M. Lemert |
PART FIVE: JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
Judicial Reform
Juvenile Court Theory and Impact in Historical Perspective |
H.H. Clark, Jr. |
The Legal Legacy
Beyond Gault: Injustice and the Child |
P. Lerman |
In re Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court |
B.C. Feld |
The System Legacy
Responding to Juvenile Crime: Lessons Learned |
P.W. Greenwood |
Gender Bias in Juvenile Justice Processing: Implications of the JJDP Act |
D.M. Bishop & C.E. Frazier |
Race, Gender, and the Prehearing Detention of Juveniles |
K. Kempf-Leonard |
The Comparative Advantage of Juvenile Versus Criminal Court Sanctions on Recidivism Among Adolescent Felony Offenders |
J. Fagan |
The Program Legacy
An Analysis of Juvenile Correctional Treatment |
S.P. Lab & J.T. Whitehead |
Alternative Placements for Juvenile Offenders: Results From the Evaluation of the Nokomis Challenge Program |
E.P. Deschenes & P.W. Greenwood |
A Survey of Juvenile Electronic Monitoring and Home Confinement Programs |
J.B. Vaughn |
Boot Camps: A Critique and a Proposed Alternative |
A.W. Salerno |
Prospects
The future of Juvenile Justice Policy and Research |
L.E. Ohlin |
Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy |
B.C. Field |
Suggested Readings
Index