The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

<p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Examines advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice with interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners</li> <li>Provides a current state of both fields, while also assessing where they have been and defining where they should go in years to come</li> <li>Addresses developments in theory, research, and policy, as well as cultural changes and legal shifts</li> <li>Contains summaries of juvenile justice trends from around the world, including the US, the Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, and China</li> <li>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</li> </ul>