Serious & violent juvenile offenders [[electronic resource] ] : risk factors and successful interventions / / Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, editors

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.36; 364.40973
• Soggetto topico: Juvenile delinquency - United States - Prevention; Deviant behavior - United States - Prevention; Violent crimes - United States - Prevention; Problem youth - Behavior modification - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LoeberRolf FarringtonDavid P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-485) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword: Never Too Early; How Criminology can be Enhanced by the Study of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders; Preface; Executive Summary; Chapter 1 - Major Aims of this Book; PART I - Developmental Course and Risk Factors; Chapter 2 - Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders; Chapter 3 - Race, Ethnicity, and Serious Juvenile Offending; Chapter 4 - The Contemporaneous Co-Occurrence of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending and Other Problem Behaviors; Chapter 5 - Development of Serious and Violent Offending Careers ; Chapter 6 - Predictors of Violent or Serious Delinquency in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Synthesis of Longitudinal ResearchChpater 7 - A Review of Predictors of youth Violence; Chapter 8 - Membership in Youth Gangs and Involvement in Serious and Violent Offending; Chapter 9 - Screening of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Identification, Classification, and Prediction; PART II - Preventive Interventions and Graduated Sanctions; Chapter 10 - The Prevention of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending ; Chapter 11 - Comprehensive Community- and School-Based Interventions to Prevent Antisocial BehaviorChapter 12 - Promising Programs for youth Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention; Chapter 13 - Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders: A Synthesis of Research; Chapter 14 - The Impact of the Juvenile Justice System and Prospects for Graduated Sanctions in a Comprehensive Strategy; Chapter 15 - Intermediate Sanctions and Community Treatment for Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders; PART III - Concluding Overview
• Sommario/riassunto: Using an integrative approach, this detailed and comprehensive treatment of key issues related to serious and violent juvenile offenders focuses on topics such as race and ethnicity, youth gangs and prevention and intervention programmmes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Serious & violent juvenile offenders
• ISBN: 1-322-41755-5; 0-7619-1275-4; 1-4522-4964-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910479939603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II