This unique & balanced text includes both critical & mainstream perspectives on delinquency & delinquents. The book encourages readers to actively explore juvenile delinquency's definitions, history, measurement, & theories. It also encourages readers to thoroughly examine the juvenile justice system. Relevant to both Criminal Justice & Sociology studies, Juvenile Delinquency: The Mainstream & Crosscurrents situates the problems of delinquency within the social contexts of the 21st Century. It recognizes the problems of children caught up in crime... This critical perspective text illuminates the issues of delinquency.
- ISBN10 0131149458
- ISBN13 9780131149458
- Publish Date 13 March 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English