Responding to Troubled Youth

Neuausgabe 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-509853-2
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Studies in Crime and Public Po

This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in responding to these troubled and troublesome youths are the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales. Local community services' response to status offenders in seven cities are investigated to determine whether local practices conform with the ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation.

This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in responding to these troubled and troublesome youths are the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales. Local community services' response to status offenders in seven cities are investigated to determine whether local practices conform with the ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxson, Cheryl L.

Klein, Malcolm W.