| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 336 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of key events -- List of entries -- Guide to related topics -- THE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abused/battered children -- ADD/ADHD -- African Americans and juvenile violence -- Aging out -- Alcohol -- Anomie/strain theory -- Arousal theory -- Asians and juvenile violence -- Assault -- Biochemical theories -- Biosocial theories -- Boot camps -- Boston Youth Strike Force -- Brazil, Nathaniel -- Bullying -- Carneal, Michael -- Center for the Prevention of School Violence (CPSV) -- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) -- Central Park Jogger Case -- Chicago Area Project -- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) -- Child savers -- Children in Need of Services (CHINS) -- Childen's Aid Society -- Children's Defense Fund -- Chivalry hypothesis -- Chronic 6 percent -- Cocaine and crack cocaine -- Cognitive theories -- Community treatment -- Conflict resolution -- Conflict theories -- Control theories -- Corporal punishment -- Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) -- Curfews -- Death penalty -- Delinquency and drift theory -- Delinquency as a problem solving theory -- Delinquency in a birth cohort -- Detached street workers -- Developmental theories -- Differences between juvenile justice and criminal justice -- Differential association theory -- Defferential identification theory -- Differential opportunity theory -- Diversion -- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) -- Educational opportunity and juvenile violence -- Family relations and juvenile violence -- Film, Juvenile violence and -- Gang involvement, theories on -- Gang sweeps -- Gang types -- Gang units, Police -- Gang violence against bystanders -- Gang-on-gang violence -- Gangs, Female -- Gender, Frequency of perpetuating violence by -- Gender, Treatment of, in the juvenile justice system -- Gender, Types of juvenile violence received by -- Gender, Types of violence perpetuated by -- General and specific deterrence theory -- General strain theory (GST) -- General theory of crime -- Genetic theories -- Glen Ridge, New Jersey (1989) -- Glueck, Sheldon and Eleanor -- Golden, Andrew (and Mitchell Johnson) -- GREAT -- Gun-related violence, Rates of -- Gun-related violence, Types of -- Hallucinogens -- Harris, Eric and Dylan Klebold -- Hate crime -- Hazing -- Heroin -- Hispanics and juvenile violence -- Home confinement/electronic monitoring -- Homelessness and youth violence -- Hormonal/chemical explanations for gender differences -- Illinois Juvenile Court -- In loco parentis -- Intensive aftercare -- Intensive supervised probation (ISP) -- Interactionist theories -- Juvenile detention centers -- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, 1974 (JJDPA) -- Juvenile Justice Reform Act, 1977 -- Juvenile violence, 1600-1800 (Colonial Era) -- Juvenile violence, 1861-1865 (Civil War Era) -- Juvenile violence, 1865-1899 (Reconstruction and late 1890s) -- Juvenile violence, 1900-1910 -- Juvenile violence, 1910-1919 -- Juvenile violence, 1920-1929 -- Juvenile violence, 1930-1939 -- Juvenile violence, 1940-1949 -- Juvenile violence, 1950-1959 -- Juvenile violence, 1960-1969 -- Juvenile violence, 1970-1979 -- Juvenile violence, 1980-1989 -- Juvenile violence, 1990-1999 -- Juvenile violence, 2000 to date -- Juveniles in adult prisons -- Kinkel, Kip -- Labeling theory -- Liberation hypothesis -- Loukaitis, Barry -- Marijuana -- Mentoring -- Methamphetamines -- Monitoring the future -- Music, Juvenile violence and -- National Center for Juvenile Justice -- National Council on Crime and Delinquency -- National Crime Victimiation Survey (NCVS) -- National Household Survey on Drug Abuse -- National Institute of Justice (NIJ) -- National School Safety Center (NSSC) -- National Youth Survey -- Native Americans and juvenile violence -- Neurological theories -- New York Houses of Refuge -- News, Juvenile violence and -- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) -- Operation Ceasefire -- Oregon Social Learning Cener (OSLC) -- Parens patriae -- Peaceable schools -- Personality theories -- Policing juveniles -- Power-control theory -- Prescription drugs -- Pride surveys -- Probation -- Problem Behavior Syndrome (PBS) --- Psychodynamic theory -- Public health approach -- Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) -- Rational choice theory -- Restitution -- Restorative justice -- Rochester Youth Development Study -- Rolland Kayla, Shooting of -- Routine activities theory -- Rural juvenile violence -- Safe and Drug Free Schools Act -- Sampson and Laub's Analysis of Gluecks' Data -- School Crime Vicitimization Survey -- School police officers -- Seduction of crime theory -- Sexual violence, Rates of -- Sexual violence, Types of -- Situational crime prevention -- Social development theory -- Social disorganization theory -- Social learning theories -- Solomon, T.J. -- Specialized courts -- Spur posse -- Stimulants -- Subcultural theories -- Suburban juvenile violence -- Suicide -- Surveillance in schools -- Systematic violence in schools -- Tate, Lionel -- Techniques of neutralization -- Teen courts -- Television, Juvenile violence and -- Trait theories -- Uniform crime reports (UCR) -- United States Department of Justice (JSDOJ) -- Urban juvenile violence -- Victims in the media -- Victims of juvenile violence, Adults as -- Victims of juvenile violence, Juveniles as -- Victims of juvenile Violence, Treatment of -- Victims of juvenile violence, Very young -- Waivers to adult courts -- Weiss, Jeff -- Wilkins, Heath -- Woodham, Luke -- Wurst, Andy -- Youth Violence Strike Force -- Youthful offender system -- Zero tolerance laws -- Useful Web sites and recommended reading -- Index -- About the editor and contributors. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Violence in children -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Juvenile delinquency -- Encyclopedias.
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Violence in children -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Finley, Laura L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Encyclopedia of juvenile violence. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007 0313336822 9780313336829 (DLC) 2006029960 (OCoLC)71350456 |
| ISBN |
9780313063497 electronic bk |
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0313063494 electronic bk |
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