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Search - The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law

The Juvenile Justice System Delinquency Processing and the Law
Author: Dean J. Champion

The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing and the Law, fourth edition, is a complete examination of the juvenile justice system. It examines how juvenile offenders are defined and classified and draws on current literature to depict significant stages of juvenile processing. Current juvenile cases are used to illustrate the legal ... more »bases for decisions about juveniles. Landmark Supreme Court cases are included, although persuasive decisions from various state courts are presented to show juvenile justice trends. A legalistic perspective is used, therefore, to highlight the different rights juveniles have acquired and how different components of the juvenile justice system relate to them. An integral feature of this book is the distinction between status offenses and delinquent offenses. This difference has significant consequences for all juveniles affected. The history of juvenile courts is described, including crucial events that have influenced the course of juvenile justice. Increasingly, juveniles are extended rights commensurate with the rights of adults. An indication of this trend is the growing use of waivers (certifications or transfers) to criminal court. This option is intended to expose more serious juvenile offenders to more severe punishment forms compared with the possible punishments that juvenile judges may impose. However, the spreading use of waivers has not always achieved the intended result of more severe penalties for juveniles, since many juveniles who are waived to criminal courts receive minimal punishments if punished at all. One explanation is that most juveniles who are transferred to criminal courts are not necessarily the most serious, dangerous, or violent juvenile offenders. A majority of those transferred continue to be property offenders, drug users, public order and status offenders. Once juveniles are waived to the jurisdiction of criminal courts, their age becomes a mitigating factor. Quite often, this factor trivializes the seriousness of their offending and lessens the punishments imposed. Many cases against juveniles are dropped or reduced to less serious charges. Thus, many juveniles who are tried as adults receive sentences that are comparatively less severe than those that would otherwise be contemplated and imposed by juvenile judges. However, one potential penalty that receives increasing attention is the death penalty applied to juveniles. Current case law about imposing the death penalty as a punishment for juveniles is examined, and several juvenile death penalty cases are described. Juveniles are not only classified according to type of offense, but they are also tracked according to the nature of offenses committed across years. Delinquency is defined and measured according to several popular indices, such as the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Crime Victimization Survey. The fact is that no single resource discloses the true amount of delinquency in the United States. The major components of the juvenile justice system are featured, including law enforcement, prosecution and the courts, and corrections. Corrections is presented in a broad context, with each correctional component described. Correctional strategies ranging from diversion to full-fledged incarceration are featured, together with a discussion of the favorable and unfavorable dimensions of such programs. One interesting feature is a section devoted to recidivism among juveniles, depending upon the nature of the treatment program described. Thus, community-based correctional programs are assessed, together with probation and parole alternatives for managing a growing juvenile offender aggregate. Electronic monitoring and home confinement are described as strategic and technological means of coping with growing numbers of juvenile offenders. Every effort has been made to include the most up-to-date sources, references, and other materials. Thus, at the time this book went into production, the most currently available material was used as the bases for tables, figures, and juvenile justice statistics. The most current material is not always that current, however. For example, government documents about juvenile justice statistics are published from twelve to eighteen months from the time the information is actually collected and analyzed. Therefore, it is not unusual for a government document published in 2002 to report "recent" juvenile delinquency statistics for 2000. This situation is common, since governmental compilation and reporting of such information is a slow and tedious process. It is very unlikely, therefore, that the government will report 2002 information in 2002. However, the historical factual information about juveniles and the juvenile justice system does not change. Also, there are very few changes in juvenile laws from year to year. Of course, new information is constantly being generated by researchers and government agencies. As a textbook ages, therefore, those seeking more current information about juvenile delinquency trends and other statistical information can obtain additional data from several sites on the Internet. Several relevant Internet sites have been listed at chapter ends. I have sought to provide the reader with the best and most recent information available at the time this manuscript was prepared. Features and Ancillaries Several important features and ancillaries have been prepared for this book. First, there are chapter objectives that outline what each chapter is designed to accomplish. Key terms that are fundamental to understanding the juvenile justice system, the criminal justice system, and various programs and processes are highlighted in boldface. A complete glossary of these terms is provided in an appendix. Each chapter contains a summary, highlighting the chapter's main points. At chapter ends, a list of suggested readings is provided. These are intended to supplement materials presented in each chapter. Thus, if students wish to learn more about any specific topic, these references may be consulted easily. Also included at chapter ends are questions for review. Students are encouraged to study these questions and learn to answer them based on chapter information provided. These questions may also be used in preparation for semester or quarter examinations. For instructors, an Instructor's Manual and Test Bank has been provided. This Instructor's Manual and Test Bank includes chapter objectives and summary information. It also includes true/false, multiple choice, and short-answer essay questions that can be used for examination purposes. Any instructor who adopts this book may request an Instructor's Manual and Test Bank on computer diskette in one of several popular software formats. A diskette containing this information is furnished upon request by contacting the author directly at the addresses provided below.

ISBN-13: 9780023206153
ISBN-10: 0023206152
Publication Date: 1/1992
Pages: 602
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Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div
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