Responding to Troubled Youth - Klein, Malcolm W.

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Résumé :
This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in responding to these troubled and troublesome youths are the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales. Local community services' response to status offenders in seven cities are investigated to determine whether local practices conform with the ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation....

Biographie:
Cheryl Maxson has directed research studies on national, state, and local issues. She has written several articles on street gangs, status offenders, police response to juveniles, juvenile justice legislation, drug sales, and community treatment of juvenile offenders.
Malcolm Klein is the author of many books, including The American Street Gang (OUP, 1996). He is the recipient of the Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology....

Sommaire:
Cheryl Maxson has directed research studies on national, state, and local issues. She has written several articles on street gangs, status offenders, police response to juveniles, juvenile justice legislation, drug sales, and community treatment of juvenile offenders.
Malcolm Klein is the author of many books, including The American Street Gang (OUP, 1996). He is the recipient of the Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology....