<p>Helping to sort out the complex issues involved in the ongoing debate over the processing of delinquents through the juvenile justice system . . . This collection of eighteen articles covers the conflicting philosophies underlying the juvenile justice system, current knowledge about status offenders, the role of such social institutions as the family and the school in the onset and control of delinquency, and major policy issues that decision makers will need to resolve in the years ahead.</p>

Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Weisheit, Ralph A.

Culbertson, Robert G.

Social Sciences

Waveland Pr Inc.

The record rates of imprisonment seen in America in the 1990s reflect not only a willingness to use imprisonment as a punishment, but a general approach in which social problems are seen as crime problems to be dealt with by police, the courts, and corrections. Although the public seems to demand simple solutions, there is nothing simple about the crime problem. Readers of criminal justice must come to grips with some of the most emotional and complex questions confronting our society. The editors have assembled a group of articles which illustrate some of the complexities of criminal justice in a way that is accessible to the general reader. Scrutiny over the issues and controversies in the field of criminal justice has resulted in a massive body of literature. The editors of this collection have focused on some of the major issues which have emerged from this literature. The six new articles in this Fifth Edition (and two which have been updated) reflect a heightened awareness of issues related to victims, career criminals, illegal drugs, police practices, an overloaded court system, and current dilemmas facing prisons.

"Order Under Law": Readings in Criminal Justice

The record rates of imprisonment seen in America in the 1990s reflect not only a willingness to use imprisonment as a punishment, but a general approach in which social problems are seen as crime problems to be dealt with by police, the courts, and corrections. Although the public seems to demand simple solutions, there is nothing simple about the crime problem.  Readers of criminal justice must come to grips with some of the most emotional and complex questions confronting our society. The editors have assembled a group of articles which illustrate some of the complexities of criminal justice in a way that is accessible to the general reader.  Scrutiny over the issues and controversies in the field of criminal justice has resulted in a massive body of literature. The editors of this collection have focused on some of the major issues which have emerged from this literature.  The six new articles in this Fifth Edition (and two which have been updated) reflect a heightened awareness of issues related to victims, career criminals, illegal drugs, police practices, an overloaded court system, and current dilemmas facing prisons.

Order under law: Readings in criminal justice

Criminal Law

Waveland PRess

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