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Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
Double Jeopardy considers the newest data on the nature of youths' mental disorders--their relationships to delinquency, the values and limits of methods to treat them, and the common patterns of adolescent offending.

An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending
The first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States.

Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy
Peter W. Greenwood demonstrates here that as crimes rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior, while program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity, he reveals, has been the revelation of a few prevention models that reduce crime much more cost-effectively than popular approaches such as tougher sentencing, D.A.R.E., boot camps, and "scared straight" programs.