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 Juvenile Justice in America Problems and Prospects
Randall G. Shelden and Daniel Macallair
The editors of this volume collectively have more than sixty years of experience researching and writing about juvenile delinquency and developing and evaluating programs for juvenile offenders. Despite declines in youth crime, public perceptions of youth violence have contributed to widespread support for dismantling the juvenile court system and trying children as adults— replacing rehabilitation with incarceration as the solution to juvenile delinquency. The articles in the first section discuss current issues in the juvenile justice system: the failures of detention and correctional facilities; disproportionate jailing of minority offenders; aftercare; and the double standard for juvenile girls. Each of the articles underscores the issues of class, gender, and racial bias. The articles in the second section offer recommendations for reform: the need to seek alternative perspectives on what constitutes delinquency; appropriate measures for addressing problem behavior; detention diversion; alternatives to secure confinement; and effective programs designed specifically for girl offenders.
$24.95 list, 276 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-523-6 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-523-6 © 2008 Table of Contents Part I. PROBLEMS 1. From Houses of Refuge to "Youth Corrections": Same Story, Different Day (Randall G. Shelden) 2. Jailing Minority Kids (Randall G. Shelden) 3. Testing Incapacitation Theory: Youth Crime and Incarceration in California (Mike A. Males, Daniel Macallair, and Megan D. Corcoran) 4. Aftercare as Afterthought: Reentry and the California Youth Authority (Michelle Byrnes, Daniel Macallair, and Andrea Shorter) 5. Still the "Best Place to Conquer Girls": Girls and the Juvenile Justice System (Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin) Part II. PROSPECTS 6. Thinking Out of the Box: The Need to Do Something Different (Randall G. Shelden) 7. Restructuring Juvenile Corrections in California (Sele Nadel-Hayes and Daniel Macallair) 8. An Alternative to Detention: The Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (Randall G. Shelden) 9. Alternatives to the Secure Detention and Confinement of Juvenile Offenders (James Austin, Kelly Dedel Johnson, and Ronald Weitzer) 10. Innovative Programs for Girl Offenders (Meda Chesney-Lind)
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