The Juvenile Justice System: Deliquency, Processing and the Law (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Dean J. Champion (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 11, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0130166391 | ISBN-13: 978-0130166395 | Edition: 3

For introductory courses in Juvenile Justice.This text provides a complete, in-depth overview of all phases of the contemporary juvenile justice system. It examines the nature of delinquency, classifications of juvenile offenders, alternative explanations for juvenile misconduct, juvenile courts and juvenile rights, and corrections.

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Thoroughly referenced and comprehensive in scope, The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and The Law provides readers with a complete overview of all phases of the juvenile justice system. In-depth treatment of the mechanisms, procedures, punishments, and sanctions are reinforced by the author's extensive use of case studies. The book compares the juvenile justice system in the United States with the juvenile justice systems of Japan, Norway, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, as well as our own criminal justice system to provide students with a unique perspective. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Clear description of juvenile justice processing through arrest, intake, adjudication, and disposition
• Examination of the many dimensions of police-juvenile relations
• Description of classification systems for juveniles, including state-based risk assessment inventories
• Discussion of the jail removal initiative and deinstitutionalization of status offenses
• Comprehensive discussion of intermediate punishments for juveniles, including home confinement, electronic monitoring, and other community corrections alternatives
• Extensive review of the juvenile probation and parole revocation process
• Detailed portrayal of the latest blended sentencing statutes applicable to violent juveniles
• Full complement of ancillaries, including instructor's manual, test bank, comprehensive glossary, up-to-date bibliography, discussion questions at chapter ends, and suggested readings

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 635 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; 3 edition (May 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130166391
• ISBN-13: 978-0130166395
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,285,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dry, yet informative., August 10, 2000

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"cvb37" (Pacifica, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Juvenile Justice System, The: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law (Hardcover)

This book is one of the more wordy books I have ever read. The text is very dry yet informative. If you suffer from insomnia, this is one cure, I know it was for me. In all seriousness, this is a relatively good book, though I feel the newer version is a lot better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Dull, May 11, 2005

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Rachel "rck" (Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law, Fourth Edition (Hardcover)

I am a Criminology and Criminal Justice student finishing my sophomore year this month. I have taken 7 different CCJ classes so far, and this textbook ranks among the most dry, dull, and boring CCJ textbooks I have ever had the misfortune to read. Even my Criminal Law text was better than this book was.

As the other reviwer expressed, the text is extremely wordy. I feel that the author could have simplified it somewhat--after all Juvenile Justice is a 2000-level class at my university; not a postgraduate class. The information contained in the book is not bad, but the subject could have been made so much more interesting, and the entire book could have been shortened by a couple hundred pages without too much important information being deleted.

I've kept all my other CCJ texts for future reference, but this book went back to the bookstore for cash on buyback day.

1.0 out of 5 stars horrible, February 7, 2009

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Nick "nick" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

As with the other reviewers the book is extremely wordy. There are no color pictures and I thought I was reading an enclyclopedia. Why my university decided to make this book the standard for the juvenile course is bizarre. I fell asleep reading this book every time I looked at it. It just had too much information per chapter, just page after page of text.