Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

This handbook is an up-to-date examination of advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice that includes interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners.

• Examines advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice with interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners

• Provides a current state of both fields, while also assessing where they have been and defining where they should go in years to come

• Addresses developments in theory, research, and policy, as well as cultural changes and legal shifts

• Contains summaries of juvenile justice trends from around the world, including the US, the Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, and China

• Covers central issues in the scholarly literature, such as social learning theories, opportunity theories, criminal processing, labeling and deterrence, gangs and crime, community-based sanctions and reentry, victimization, and fear of crime

Auteur

Marvin D. Krohn is Professor of Criminology in the
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University
of Florida. He has a long-standing interest in the etiology of
delinquency and drug use, focusing primarily on social
psychological and life course approaches. For the past 25 years, he
has been Co-Principal Investigator on the Rochester Youth
Development Study, a three-generational longitudinal panel study
targeting those at high risk for serious crime and delinquency. He
is co-author of Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental
Perspective (2003), which was the American Society of
Criminology's recipient of the 2003 Michael J. Hindelang
Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He is also co-author of
Researching Theories of Crime and Delinquency (2008) and
Delinquent Behavior (1986) and has co-edited four
compendiums on crime and delinquency. He was recently named a
Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

Jodi Lane is Professor of Criminology in the Department
of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of
Florida. Her research focuses on the impact of the juvenile
justice system on both clients and practitioners. She has conducted
evaluations of innovative juvenile justice programs, including the
South Oxnard Challenge Project in California and the Florida Faith
and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative. She was
recently named one of the most prolific lead and sole authors in
elite criminology and criminal justice journals (Orrick and Weir,
2011). Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Crime and
Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Criminal Justice and
Behavior.