Juvenile Justice: The Essentials »

Richard Lawrence is Professor of Criminal Justice at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He earned a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, M.A. in Psychology at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX and a B.A. in Psychology at Bethel University, St. Paul, MN. He has published two books on school crime and juvenile justice and is the author of more than forty articles and chapters published in academic journals and books, including Juvenile Justice: A Text/Reader, just published by SAGE.

The proposed core textbook will present an overview of the major subject areas in juvenile justice, with some of the latest research available from other books, journal articles, and government documents. The book will include special features that engage the reader in thinking critically about the subjects, with practical examples of justice in action, laws, policies, and programs in juvenile justice. This core textbook will be shorter than a comprehensive text, less expensive, and will allow the Instructor to use it either as the primary textbook in a course, or as one of two or more supplementary textbooks.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Defining and Measuring Juvenile Delinquency
Chapter 2: The History of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 3: Causes of Delinquency: Biological and Psychological Explanations
Chapter 4: Sociological Explanations of Delinquency
Chapter 5: Correlates and Causes of Delinquency
Chapter 6: Police and Juveniles
Chapter 7: Due Process and Juveniles' Rights
Chapter 8: Juvenile Detention and Court Intake
Chapter 9: Transfer to Criminal Court
Chapter 10: The Juvenile Court Process
Chapter 11: Juvenile Corrections: Institutional and Residential
Chapter 12: Juvenile Probation and Community Corrections
Chapter 13: Restorative Justice
Chapter 14: The Future of Juvenile Justice
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