Offering a comprehensive and balanced treatment, this book traces the history, development, and current practices of the system designed to deal with juvenile behavior, its control and treatment. It concentrates on the processes that make the juvenile justice system work, the people involved in the system, and the programs aimed at meeting the needs of children in trouble. The writing style is clear and concise, incorporating understandable examples and descriptions throughout. KEY TOPICS A three-part format presents the history of juvenile justice, provides extensive coverage of the entire juvenile justice process, and considers its future. For individuals interested and/or considering a career in the criminal justice field.

Juvenile Justice Today (4th Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Simonsen, Clifford E.

Vito Ph.D., Gennaro F.

Social Sciences

Pearson

This book provides a clear, concise, realistic, and up-to-date blueprint for successful police management. Drawing on decades of experience as practitioners, consultants, trainers and researchers, the authors fully reflect current theory and practice, while accurately capturing the “feel” of real-world law enforcement management. They focus on organizational behavior to promote a deeper understanding of both the police organization as a whole, as well as key interactions among officers, managers, and the community. This edition integrates the latest research, and presents all-new chapters on performance-based management and organizational development. It offers expanded coverage of leadership, team-building, stress management, and many other topics; as well as 39 new cases. Some key features to the new edition include: <ul>
<li> 39 new cases, 100+ new research references, and 58 new or revised Further Readings listings </li> <li> All-new chapter on Performance-Based Management–showing how to create work environments that enable employees to continuously improve </li> <li> All-new chapter on Developing Effective Organizations—including coverage of systematically building better teams and achieving better performance throughout the organization </li> </ul>
This book is for professionals in law enforcement that hold these positions: Chief, Assistant Chief, Commander, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Watch Commander, Sheriff, and Assistant Sheriff.

Organizational Behavior and Management in Law Enforcement (3rd Edition)

More Ph.D., Harry W.

Walsh Ph.D., William F.

Offering concise, self-contained chapters, Juvenile Justice Today, 1e explores the history of juvenile justice, the juvenile justice system, and special populations. Video profiles accompany each chapter and give a dramatic picture of juveniles in the system, along with the police, judges and personnel that work with them. The mycrimekit website supports the text and includes practice quizzes, essay questions and online activities. Throughout the text, real-world examples and research and evaluations summaries help students understand the juvenile justice system, processes and people within it.

Juvenile Justice Today

Kunselman, Julie C.

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