Juvenile Justice

✍ Scribed by Kären M. Hess

Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 487
Edition: 5
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Gain a practical and comprehensive understanding of the juvenile justice system with JUVENILE JUSTICE, Fifth Edition. Highly accessible and student friendly, this text explores various programs and processes that exist in today's juvenile justice system, including prevention efforts through school and community-based programs. The fifth edition also includes expanded coverage of measurement, victimization, differences between the adult and juvenile justice systems, diversity, gangs, future trends in the field, cutting-edge policies, and more

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