This best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, Tenth Edition, text gives you timely coverage of theory, policy, and the latest research. Praised for its balanced approach and for the authors' engaging writing style, this text will help you understand the nature of delinquency and its causes, as well as current strategies being used to control or eliminate its occurrence. And JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, Tenth Edition, includes leading-edge learning aids! Study more effectively and achieve success in your course with chapter objectives, critical-thinking questions, and a helpful point-by-point summary in each chapter. Plus, the book's many accompanying resources, such as the Book Companion Website, get you ready for your next exam!
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"The text is organized in a manner that allows for optimal student learning. The correct mix of theory and practice has been achieved. The 'real-life' snapshots serve the purpose of gaining student interest in the topic."
"Major strengths include the breadth of coverage; the extensive use and variety of visual aids, graphs, charts, and photographs to supplement text; timely and interesting examples to illustrate concepts; and a refreshingly straightforward academic writing style."
"I think the strengths of this book lie in its comprehensiveness, the fact that it is well updated and current and uses recent examples throughout to highlight the issues."
"I chose this text because it is the most thorough in its coverage of the current research literature in juvenile delinquency, and the balanced discussion of research and policy controversies encourages students to think critically and evaluate evidence. Students like the textbook."
"Major strengths include the breadth of coverage; the extensive use and variety of visual aids, graphs, charts, and photographs to supplement text; timely and interesting examples to illustrate concepts; and a refreshingly straightforward academic writing style."
"I think the strengths of this book lie in its comprehensiveness, the fact that it is well updated and current and uses recent examples throughout to highlight the issues."
"I chose this text because it is the most thorough in its coverage of the current research literature in juvenile delinquency, and the balanced discussion of research and policy controversies encourages students to think critically and evaluate evidence. Students like the textbook."
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community treatment, juvenile corrections, family violence, latent trait, criminal careers, general strain theory, police encounters, youth justice, adolescent violence, adult criminality, parenting processes, criminological theory, multilevel analysis, child maltreatment, early childhood intervention, gender similarity, juvenile transfers, emerging adulthood, subsequent delinquency, criminal embeddedness, court statistics, externalizing behaviors, juvenile diversion, juvenile detainees, criminal victimization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cengage Learning, All Rights Reserved, New York, United States, Environmental Influences, Journal of Research, Delinquency Copyright, African American, The Juvenile Justice System Copyright, Delinquency Prevention, Supreme Court, University of Chicago Press, Justice Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Head Start, American Society of Criminology, Oxford University Press, Los Angeles, Concept Summary, National Report, Cambridge University Press, Critical Thinking, Government Printing Office, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology Browse Sample Pages:
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community treatment, juvenile corrections, family violence, latent trait, criminal careers, general strain theory, police encounters, youth justice, adolescent violence, adult criminality, parenting processes, criminological theory, multilevel analysis, child maltreatment, early childhood intervention, gender similarity, juvenile transfers, emerging adulthood, subsequent delinquency, criminal embeddedness, court statistics, externalizing behaviors, juvenile diversion, juvenile detainees, criminal victimization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cengage Learning, All Rights Reserved, New York, United States, Environmental Influences, Journal of Research, Delinquency Copyright, African American, The Juvenile Justice System Copyright, Delinquency Prevention, Supreme Court, University of Chicago Press, Justice Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Head Start, American Society of Criminology, Oxford University Press, Los Angeles, Concept Summary, National Report, Cambridge University Press, Critical Thinking, Government Printing Office, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology Browse Sample Pages:
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