From boot camps to truancy, the Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice provides more than 200 up-to-date, concise, and readable entries in a single, authoritative volume. The editors, noted authors of several criminal justice books and editors of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Prisons, cover historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States.

The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as alcohol and drug abuse, arson, the death penalty for juveniles, computer and Internet crime, gun...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Community policing involves officers permanently assigned to an area, working with citizens to identify and solve crime problems. Describes the development of community policing in Seattle, Washington, exploring legitimation processes, urban political processes, and micro-organizational processes. I

Critiques contemporary positivist-based criminology and proposes an alternative that is not in itself a new theory but a new orienting perspective, a different way of perceiving reality, under which existing theories can be used and reinterpreted. Because Williams proposes a metatheory rather than a