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Juvenile Delinquency
. Ed(S): Heilbrun, Kirk; Goldstein, Naomi E. Sevin; Redding, Richard E.
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Description for Juvenile Delinquency
This volume summarizes the evidence on aspects of juvenile delinquency prevention, assessment, and intervention. Editor(s): Heilbrun, Kirk; Goldstein, Naomi E. Sevin; Redding, Richard E. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Juvenile offending and anti-social behaviour are enormous societal concerns. This broad-reaching volume summarizes the current evidence on prevention, diversion, causes, and rates of delinquency, as well as assessment of risk and intervention needs. A distinguished cast of contributors from law, psychology, and psychiatry describe what we know about interventions in school, community, and residential contexts, focusing particularly on interventions that are risk reducing and cost effective. Equally important, each chapter comments on what is not well supported through research, distinguishing aspects of current practice that are likely to be effective from those that are not and mapping new directions for ... Read more
Juvenile offending and anti-social behaviour are enormous societal concerns. This broad-reaching volume summarizes the current evidence on prevention, diversion, causes, and rates of delinquency, as well as assessment of risk and intervention needs. A distinguished cast of contributors from law, psychology, and psychiatry describe what we know about interventions in school, community, and residential contexts, focusing particularly on interventions that are risk reducing and cost effective. Equally important, each chapter comments on what is not well supported through research, distinguishing aspects of current practice that are likely to be effective from those that are not and mapping new directions for ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195160079
SKU
V9780195160079
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Ref
99-2
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