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  • The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice

    Edited by Barry C. Feld, Donna M. Bishop ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency. Specifically, we have learned a great deal about adolescent development and its relationship to decision-making, about multiple factors that contribute to delinquency, and about the processes and contexts associated with the course of delinquent careers. Over the same period, ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Bad Kids

    Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court

    by Barry C. Feld ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both the Supreme Court decisions to provide delinquents ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Principles of Criminology

    by Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Evolution of the Juvenile Court

    Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice

    by Barry Feld ...
    Series Book 4 - Youth, Crime, and Justice
    From one of America's leading experts, an analysis of the history of the nation's juvenile justice system and a look at the future.The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy, and reflects our changing ideas about children and crime control throughout history. In The Evolution of the Juvenile Court, noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld provides a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles

    Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America

    by Chrysanthi S Leon ...
    "This book brilliantly tracks the reformulations of public discourse about sex offenders . . . [with] a rigorous examination of incarceration patterns." —Jonathan Simon, author of Governing Through CrimeFrom Megan's Law to Jessica's Law, almost every state in the nation has passed some law to punish sex offenders. This popular tough-on-crime legislation is often written after highly-publicized ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Responding to Youth Crime in Canada

    by Carla Cesaroni, Anthony N. Doob ...
    In Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, Anthony Doob and Carla Cesaroni describe how Canada has been responding to youth crime in the context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which came into force on April 1, 2003. The authors describe what is known about Canadian youth crime, and the operation of the youth justice system in the context of the changes in the law that are taking place.The authors ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Victimization of Women

    Law, Policies, and Politics

    by Michelle L. Meloy, Susan L. Miller ...
    In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Gendered Justice

    Intimate Partner Violence and the Criminal Justice System

    by Venessa Garcia, Patrick McManimon ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence. The book focuses primarily on the role of gender, but also considers socio-economic status, race, age, education, and the relationship between the victim and criminal. Illustrated with case ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

    by Meda Chesney-Lind, Randall G. Shelden ...
    The new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls’ delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook.Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • A Return to Justice

    Rethinking our Approach to Juveniles in the System

    by Ashley Nellis ...
    Juveniles who commit crimes often find themselves in court systems that do not account for their young age, but it wasn’t always this way. The original aim of a separate juvenile justice system was to treat young offenders as the children they were, considering their unique child status and amenability for reform. Now, after years punishing young offenders as if they were adults, slowly the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD