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"In this groundbreaking book written in 1986, Chuen-Jim Sheu penetrated the popular veneer of crime in Chinatown as full of opium dens and organized crime, revealing the challenges that Chinese immigrant youth faced in adapting to American life. His analysis of the process of assimilation revealed why some Chinese immigrant youth turned to juvenile delinquency, and has been used as a model by a number of researchers ever since. This second edition comes at a time in the United States and many other countries, East and West, that are experiencing dramatic rises in immigration, especially those of young males, who are universally acknowledged to be the most prone to delinquency. The lessons learned in 1986 are just as relevant today, especially with respect to the challenging questions of the relationships among identity, assimilation, adaptation, and delinquency"--

Part 1 -- Adolescence and Delinquency -- The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency The Nature and Extent of Delinquency -- Part 2 -- Individual Causes of Delinquency -- Social Structural and Social Process Theories of Delinquency -- Social Interactionist Theories of Delinquency Causes of Delinquency -- Part 3 -- Gender and Delinquency -- Families and Delinquency -- Schools and Delinquency -- Gangs and Delinquency -- Special Juvenile Offender Populations Environmental Influences on Delinquency -- Part 4 -- An Overview of Juvenile Justice in America -- Police and the Juvenile -- Juvenile Court -- Juvenile Corrections

A review of critical comments on the Delinquency Prediction Study in New York which utilized the procedures developed by Sheldon & Eleanor Glueck. Unraveling juvenile delinquency is vastly more complex than the Gluecks would have us believe. Unfortunately, the roots of delinquency go beyond the boys & their families to our society, which permits the preconditions of delinquency-soc disintegration, deterioration, & marginality & which offers We children few prospects as exciting & rewarding as truancy, gang warfare, vandalism, & theft. Unless these preconditions are eliminated & until worthier prospects are offered, efforts to predict individual delinquency are far more likely to entangle than to unravel. J. A. Fishman.