Serious & violent juvenile offenders risk factors and successful interventions (Sage Publications, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-485) and index
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
Serious and violent juvenile offenders / Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, & Daniel A. Waschbusch -- Race, ethnicity, and serious juvenile offending / Darnell F. Hawkins, John H. Laub, & Janet L. Lauritsen -- The contemporaneous co-occurrence of serious and violent juvenile offending and other problem behaviors / David Huizinga & Cynthia Jakob-Chien -- Development of serious and violent offending careers / Patrick H. Tolan & Deborah Gorman-Smith -- Predictors of violent or serious delinquency in adolescence and early adulthood : a synthesis of longitudinal research / Mark W. Lipsey & James H. Derzon -- A review of predictors of youth violence / J. David Hawkins [and others] -- Membership in youth gangs and involvement in serious and violent offending / Terence P. Thornberry -- Screening of serious and violent juvenile offenders : identification, classification, and prediction / Marc Le Blanc -- The prevention of serious and violent juvenile offending / Gail A. Wasserman & Laurie S. Miller -- Comprehensive community- and school-based interventions to prevent antisocial behavior / Richard F. Catalano [and others] -- Promising programs for youth gang violence prevention and intervention / James C. Howell -- Effective intervention for serious juvenile offenders : a synthesis of research / Mark W. Lipsey & David B. Wilson -- The impact of the juvenile justice system and prospects for graduated sanctions in a comprehensive strategy / Barry Krisberg & James C. Howell -- Intermediate sanctions and community treatment for serious and violent juvenile offenders / David M. Altschuler -- Serious and violent juvenile offenders : gaps in knowledge and research priorities / Nancy G. Guerra -- Conclusions and the way forward / Rolf Loeber & David P. Farrington -- Appendix. Serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders : an assessment of the extent of and trends in officially recognized serious criminal behavior in a delinquent population / Howard N. Snyder