Juvenile Delinquency in the United States and the United Kingdom [Paperback]

This volume about juvenile delinquency in the United States and United Kingdom includes a foreword, nine chapters organized in three parts, and an afterword. Chapters 1 and 2 in Part I describe juvenile delinquency in both countries and the urgency of the current crisis. Chapters 3 to 6 in Part II deal with the two nations' juvenile justice systems, focusing on structural and ideological obstacles preventing reform. Presented in the final chapters in Part III are suggestions for reform in school, and juvenile justice setting that recognize the importance of character in causing delinquency.Notes on Contributors Foreword; J.Q.Wilson Preface and Acknowledgements PART I: THE CRISIS OF DELINQUENCY Predicting Persistent Young Offenders; D.P.Farrington Youth Violence and the Backgrounds of Chronic Violent Offenders; L.A.Greenfeld and M.A.Henneberg PART III: PROBLEMS IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN JUVENILE JUSTICE The New Political Consensus on Youth Justice in Britain; A.Rutherford Juvenile Justice Professionals: Opponents of Reform; R.A.Rossum Common Sense and Juvenile Justice in America; E.Meese III Law, Morality and the Common Good; J.Sacks PART III: TEACHING VIRTUE IN JUVENILE JUSTICE, FAMILY AND EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS Juvenile Probation on the Eve of the Next Millennium; R.P.Corbett, Jr The Center of Concern: Crime and the Family; P.Morgan Reducing Delinquency by Improving Character; J.S.Smith Afterword; M.Tuck IndexRONALD P. CORBETT, JR Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Probation DepartmentDAVID P. FARRINGTON Professor of Psychological Criminology at Cambridge UniversityLAWRENCE A. GREENFELD Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Statistical arm of the United States Department of JusticeMURREEN A. HENNEBERG previously Chief of Planning, Management and Budget in the Bureau of Justice StatisticsEDWIN MEESE III Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy at The Heritage FoundationPATRICIA MORGAN Sociologist specializing in Criminology and Family Policl£¼