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Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice provides an incisive overview of issues and perspectives in criminal justice and criminology designed to expand upon key areas of study. With contributed essays from leading scholars in the field, the Third Edition illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in areas such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. New to this edition are chapters on wrongful convictions, human trafficking, and mental illness and criminal justice, three critical issues facing contemporary policing, courts, and corrections. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives will challenge criminal justice and criminology students to synthesize what they have learned, question standard interpretations, and begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field.
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency
Available statistics reveal that persons under 18 years of age accounted for approximately 8% of all arrests in the United States in 2016, a percentage that has declined steadily since reaching its peak level of 19% in 1996 (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1996–2016, 2017; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2017). As in previous years, most arrested youth fell within the delinquency-prone 15–17 age group, and the vast majority were charged with theft, minor assaults, vandalism, drug offenses, liquor law violations, disorderly conduct, or status offenses, such as curfew violations and loitering. Contrary to the overblown myths and hysterical rhetoric fueling what Howell (2009) has dubbed a “moral panic” over supposedly escalating ...
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