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The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 174.99Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency. Specifically, we have learned a great deal about adolescent development and its relationship to decision-making, about multiple factors that contribute to delinquency, and about the processes and contexts associated with the course... more...
States of Delinquency
University of California Press 2012; US$ 27.95This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states?California?as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young... more...
The Unforgiven Digital Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2012; US$ 11.50The Teacher's Resource Guides provide 10 pages of activities and reproducible worksheets per novel to support the books and extend students' reading skills. A key at the end of each guide provides answers and sample responses. The activities give lower-level readers the tools to construct, extend, and examine the meaning of text. more...
The Price of Progressive Politics
NYU Press 2010; US$ 49.00Social justice activists in the United States face an increasingly difficult task: how do they fight policies based on damaging images of race, class and gender identities in an era of “colorblind” racism? Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive Politics exposes... more...
Judging Juveniles
NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.002007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology. 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology. By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting... more...
Do the Crime, Do the Time
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 48.00This book provides a fresh look at the way the United States is choosing to deal with some of the serious or persistent youth offenders: by transferring juvenile offenders to adult courts. more...
Soziale Arbeit als Wissenschaft
Springer 2012; US$ 31.99W hrend der Begriff 'Soziale Arbeit' in der Regel f r die inhaltliche und strukturelle Einheit sozialp dagogischer und sozialarbeiterischer Praxis steht, f hren Fragen nach der disziplin ren Zust ndigkeit einer 'Sozialen Arbeit als Wissenschaft' zu vielerlei Kontroversen. Vor allem die in den 1990er Jahren gef hrten Diskussionen um... more...
Schools and Delinquency
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00Schools and Delinquency examines the role of the school in preventing delinquency. more...
Never Enough
Encounter Books 2012; US$ 17.95Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more?much more?to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding... more...
Rural Social Work Practice
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 31.99Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities. Contributors consider the history and development of rural social work from its beginnings to the present day, addressing the value... more...









