Para entender la delincuencia juvenil y encontrar estrategias para una respuesta preventiva y de tratamiento integral del fenómeno, fue necesario investigar su evolución, los modelos de tratamiento, el marco legal internacional y nacional; y los factores de riesgo predictores del comportamiento criminal juvenil; estos últimos realizados en internos, hombres y mujeres, de centros penitenciarios.

Juveniles who commit crimes often find themselves in court systems that do not account for their young age, but it wasn't always this way. The original aim of a separate juvenile justice system was to treat young offenders as the children they were, considering their unique child status and amenability for reform. Now, after years punishing young offenders as if they were adults, slowly the justice system is making changes that would allow the original...

Although much is being published on the subject of juvenile delinquency, this volume of selected British and American source material provides something new. It includes material so old that it is practically unknown to present-day social scientists and also old material of a local nature that has never had wide circulation.

Think this couldn't happen to your family? Think again. In January 1998, the small town of Escondido, California, woke up to the breaking news that 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe had been brutally stabbed to death in her own bedroom. Her lifeless body had been discovered about 6:30 a.m. by her grandmother. The Escondido police, finding no physical evidence that could lead them to the killer, began questioning Stephanie's older brother, Michael Crowe,...

When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month. One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that...

In this special four-book bundle, legal expert Daniel J. Baum explains Canadian law in a clear and understandable way. Includes: • Youth and the Law - Laws, as they relate to youth and youth issues, can be difficult to understand for those they are intended to serve. Baum breaks down the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions relating to youth in plain language intended for readers of all ages. • Freedom of Expression - Freedom of Expression details...

Changing Lives: Lawyers Fighting for Children demonstrates the critical role that attorneys play in changing the life courses of our most at-risk children. Without legal representation, the children profiled in this book likely would have gone down a path that was detrimental to their safety, their well-being, and ultimately their ability to grow into happy and successful adults.

On a sweltering summer night, an outcast, brutally tortured, was left to die in a field behind a Houston, Texas graveyard. Later, police discover another victim, but are the two related? Written in cinematic narrative, Out Here in the Darkness draws its reader back to 1985 and the dawn of Satanic Panic. Within the first few pages, you'll find yourself an unwilling sixth member of a group of heavy metal fans as they sink into drug-fueled fantasies...

In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad, a veteran of the first Gulf War, and his seventeen-year-old protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo. In this intimate and carefully documented...

From Sandy Hook, Connecticut, to Aurora, Colorado, to Tucson, Arizona, this nation has been racked from coast to coast with mass shootings perpetrated by criminals with sick minds. Authors Dr. Liebert and Dr. Birnes believe the increase in violence is an epidemic and dig deep into the causes of mental illness to determine what exactly is going on with these individuals and society as a whole, and what action can be taken to slow this frightening trend...