Overview

This unprecedented study of delinquent behavior reversal challenges the widely held view that early delinquency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. By identifying the variables involved in the turnaround process, the contributors provide an examination of issues such as: favorable effects of juvenile court adjudication; following up previously adjudicated delinquents; the post-intervention experience; delinquency and attachment; and evolution, devolution, and disruption of treatment in an antisocial child. The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust. Criminal Justice Review Adolescent delinquents can often experience a complete behavioral turnaround--even if their delinquent behaviors have become a pattern. This unprecedented study of delinquent behavior reversal challenges the widely held view that early delinquency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. By identifying the variables involved in the turnaround process, the contributors hope to provide an understanding of this phenomenon--and to encourage its occurrence. They examine, from both personal and research perspectives, issues such as: favorable effects of juvenile court adjudication; following up previously adjudicated delinquents; the post-intervention experience; delinquency and attachment; and evolution, devolution, and disruption of treatment in an antisocial child.

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Author:   Waln K. Brown ,  Sara Kirk ,  Sarah Kirk
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9780275929282

ISBN 10:   0275929280
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   17 November 1988
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

The Dauphin County Follow-Up The Favorable Effect of Juvenile Court Adjudication of Delinquent Youth on First Contact with the Juvenile Justice System by Waln K. Brown, Timothy P. Miller, and Richard L. Jenkins Following-Up Previously Adjudicated Delinquents: A Method by Waln K. Brown and Timothy P. Miller The Inside Story People Really Do Make a Difference by Robert Thornton Imagery as a Motivating Factor in Delinquency Involvement and Cessation by Warren Rhodes The Post-Intervention Experience: A Self-Report Examination of Deviancy Devolution by Waln K. Brown Early Intervention Could Have Made a Difference by Tito T. Tiberi Encouraging and Supporting the Turnaround by Richard L. Jenkins Along the Way Delinquency and Attachment by Gerald E. Nelson and Richard W. Lewak Growing Out of Delinquency: Development and Desistance by Edward P. Mulvey and Mark Aber The Evolution, Devolution, and Disruption of Treatment of an Antisocial Child by Frederick G. Tully Outcome Serious Delinquents Who Do Not Become Adult Criminals by Gene W. Lutz and Kristin Baughman A 24-year Follow-up of Men From Vulnerable Backgrounds by David P. Farrington, Bernard Gallagher, Lynda Morley, Raymond J. St. Léger, and Donald J. West What We Can Do Keeping Kids in School: Who, How, Why, and So What? by Jerome D. Parker and Jacqueline Desnoyers Training School Potential: Fulfilling the Expectation by Carle F. O'Neil Increasing the Chances for Reform Among Delinquents: Hints From the Success-on-Parole Study by Mark R. Wiederanders For Meditation Threads for Knitting, Including Some Common Threads by Richard L. Jenkins and Waln K. Brown Bibliography Index

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?The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust.?-Criminal Justice Review

"?The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust.?-Criminal Justice Review ""The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust.""-Criminal Justice Review"

The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust. -Criminal Justice Review ?The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust.?-Criminal Justice Review

Author Information

RICHARD L. JENKINS is Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He is the principal author of No Single Cause: Juvenile Delinquency and the Search for Effective Treatment (1985). WALN K. BROWN is Director of the William Gladden Foundation, which publishes materials on a variety of social and family issues affecting children, and author of The Side of Delinquency (1983).

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