Suchergebnisse

Preface -- Crime : problems, measurement, and law -- Crime and criminal justice -- How crime is measured and who it affects -- Criminal law -- Enforcing the law -- The history and organization of law enforcement -- Police organization, operation, and the law -- Policing: innovations and controversies -- The role of the courts -- The courts -- The courtroom work group -- The disposition : plea bargaining, trial, and sentencing -- The history of control and punishment -- Prisons and jails -- Community corrections -- Contemporary issues -- Juvenile justice -- Criminal justice in the future : issues and concerns -- Glossary -- Index

What is a juvenile delinquent? -- The development of social control -- Measuring delinquency -- International and comparative delinquency -- Theoretical foundations of crime and delinquency -- Biological and psychological theories of delinquency -- Sociological theories of delinquency -- Critical, life course, and integrated theories -- Female delinquency -- The family and delinquency -- Schools and delinquency -- Youth gangs and delinquency -- The police -- The juvenile court -- Juvenile corrections -- The future of delinquency and juvenile justice