The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice) - Hardcover

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

This interdisciplinary handbook offers an up-to-date examination of advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice. The contributors--all leading scholars and practitioners--provide a current state of both fields, while also assessing where they have been and defining where they should go in years to come. They address developments in theory, research, and policy and discuss legal shifts and cultural changes that impact how we think about and handle juvenile delinquency.

The handbook's coverage is broken into seven parts that discuss all the relevant issues, from trends in juvenile justice around the world, to correlates and causes of juvenile delinquency, to current directions in theory and special issues. The chapters also take into account the central issues in the scholarly literature, including social learning theories, opportunity theories, criminal processing, labeling and deterrence, gangs and crime, and community-based sanctions and reentry. With its finger on the pulse of our current understanding of juvenile delinquency and justice, this is an essential compendium for all those working with the topics.