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Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior. It includes discussions and evaluations of all major individualistic and sociological theories, presenting each theory in a standard format with basic assumptions, important concepts, and critical evaluations of the relevant research

"Authoritative, current, and easy to use, this book is an outstanding resource for readers looking to gain an accurate and thorough understanding of American juvenile justice. Presents historical and contemporary data in an easy-to-understand fashion that survey the complex history of the juvenile justice system and allow readers to better comprehend the key issues Includes a perspectives chapter that enables readers to hear voices from individuals with different backgrounds who are concerned with juvenile justice Provides an ideal resource for general readers who want to learn more about the history and current events concerning juvenile justice as well as students without previous background knowledge of the subject Contains a chronology of key moments in the history of juvenile justice in the United States as well as a glossary of key terms and definitions to guide the reader"--

AbstractQuestionnaires were distributed to the inmates and staff of four custodial settings: (1) a men's prison; (2)a women's prison; (3) a boarding school for troubled and troublesome juveniles; and (4) a drug rehabilitation halfway house (staff not questioned). The hypothesis of the study was that violence would be inversely related to commitment (defined as involvement with the organization and organizational cohesion). Using attitudinal measures of commitment and a self‐report. Guttman scale of violence, the results of the study indicated the following: (1) violence was significantly inversely related to both organizational involvement and cohesion among some custodial inmates and (2) violence was slightly positively correlated with involvement and cohesion among some custodial staff. The relationship persisted among inmates even with the introduction of age and education as control variables. The use of these controls only slightly modified the relationship among custodial staff:

There is a considerable deficiency of both theory and research, particularly comparative research, on the variation among legal cultures within nations. The authors attempt to develop theory to stimulate and guide U.S. research by introducing a developmental thesis of legal cultures. The thesis provides a description and explanation of variation between rural, urban, and suburban communities by cross‐classifying two ideal typologies: a developmental theme (traditional and modern societies) and James Q. Wilson's varieties of police styles (watchman, legalistic, and service). Specific hypotheses pertaining to the development of police roles, police‐community relations, and the rule of law and how they might vary across rural, urban, and suburban communities are offered. The hypotheses are intended to guide research and specify conditions for evaluating empirically the thesis.

The goals of this project are to ingest tweets and Web-based content from social media and the general Web, including news and governmental information. In addition to archiving materials found, the project team will build an information system that includes related metadata and knowledge bases, consistent with the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) framework, along with results from our intelligent focused crawler, to support comprehensive access to event related content. With the support of key partners, the IDEAL team will undertake important research, education, and dissemination efforts, to achieve three complementary objectives: 1. Collecting: The project team will spot, identify, and make sense of interesting events. We also will accept specific or general requests about types of events. Given resource and sampling constraints, we will integrate methods to identify appropriate URLs as seeds, and specify when to start crawling and when to stop, with regard to each event or sub-event. We will integrate focused crawling and filtering approaches in order to ingest content and generate new collections, with high precision and recall. 2. Archiving & Accessing: Permanent archiving, and access to those archives, will be ensured by our partner, Internet Archive (IA). Immediate access to ingested content will be facilitated through big data software built on top of our new Hadoop cluster. 3. Analyzing & Visualizing: We will provide a wide range of integrated services beyond the usual (faceted) browsing and searching, including: classification, clustering, summarization, text mining, theme and topic identification, and visualization.