Detailed and comprehensive, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders presents authoritative discussions by a select group of leading scholars on issues surroundin
Describes a number of risk and protective factors, including individual, family, school, peer related, community/neighborhood, and situational factors.
Youth violence has long been a contentious and perplexing issue in current debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence amon
Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and ot
Juvenile offending and anti-social behavior are enormous societal concerns. This broad-reaching volume summarizes the current evidence on prevention, diversion,