The Juvenile Justice System: Deliquency, Processing and the Law (3rd Edition) - Hardcover

Dean John Champion

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130166391 ISBN 13: 9780130166395

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 2000

Synopsis

This book provides a complete, in-depth overview of all phases of the contemporary juvenile justice system. It examines the nature of delinquency, classifications of juvenile offenders, alternative explanations for juvenile misconduct, juvenile courts and juvenile rights, and corrections. Chapter topics include: measuring delinquency: types of offenders and trends; intake and preadjudicatory processing; prosecutorial decision making; nominal sanctions - warnings, diversion, and alternative dispute resolution; probation and intermediate punishments; and custodial sanctions and parole. For anyone interested in the United States criminal justice system as it relates to our country's youth.

About this title

About the Author

DEAN J. CHAMPION is professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Texas A&M International University. Dr. Champion has taught at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, California State University-Long Beach, and Minot State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University and B.S. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University. He also completed several years of law school at the Nashville School of Law.

Dr. Champion has written more than 25 texts and/or edited works and maintains memberships in ten different professional organizations. He is a lifetime member of the American Society of Criminology and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is former editor of the ACJS/Anderson Series on Issues in Crime and Justice (1993-1996) and the Journal of Crime and Justice (1995-1998). He was the Visiting Scholar for the National Center for Juvenile Justice in 1992 and is presently first vice president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

Among his published books for Prentice Hall are Basic Statistics for Social Research (1970, 1981); Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (1993, 2000); The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law (1992, 1998, 2001); Corrections in the United States: A Contemporary Perspective (1990, 1998, 2001); Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections (1990, 1996, 1999); Policing in the Community (w/George Rush) (1996); and The Administration of Justice Systems (forthcoming). Works with other publishers include The Sociology of Organizations (McGraw-Hill); Research Methods in Social Relations (John Wiley); Sociology (Holt, Rinehart and Winston); The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (Praeger Publishers); Juvenile Transfer Hearings (w/G. Larry Mays) (Praeger Publishers); Measuring Offender Risk (Greenwood Press); and Criminal Justice in the United States (Wadsworth).

Dr. Champion's primary research interests relate to attorney use in juvenile justice proceedings and plea bargaining.

From the Back Cover

• Clear description of juvenile justice processing through arrest, intake, adjudication, and disposition
• Examination of the many dimensions of police-juvenile relations
• Description of classification systems for juveniles, including state-based risk assessment inventories
• Discussion of the jail removal initiative and deinstitutionalization of status offenses
• Comprehensive discussion of intermediate punishments for juveniles, including home confinement, electronic monitoring, and other community corrections alternatives
• Extensive review of the juvenile probation and parole revocation process
• Detailed portrayal of the latest blended sentencing statutes applicable to violent juveniles
• Full complement of ancillaries, including instructor's manual, test bank, comprehensive glossary, up-to-date bibliography, discussion questions at chapter ends, and suggested readings

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130166391
• ISBN 13: 9780130166395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 635