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Encyclopedia of juvenile justice /
From boot camps to truancy, this book provides more than 200 up-to-date and concise entries in a single, authoritative volume. The editors cover historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States. The entries address a broad range of iss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From boot camps to truancy, this book provides more than 200 up-to-date and concise entries in a single, authoritative volume. The editors cover historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States. The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as alcohol and drug abuse, arson, the death penalty for juveniles, computer and Internet crime, gun violence, gangs, missing children, school violence, teen pregnancy, and delinquency theories. In addition, topics cover society's response to the problems of juvenile justice, punishments meted out to America's juvenile offenders, juvenile rehabilitation programs, and well-known researchers and professionals in the field. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 416 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | "Internet resources for juvenile justice": pages 403-407. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781412950640 1412950643 9781452265278 1452265275 1849725896 9781849725897 |