Juvenile Delinquency: Mainstream and Crosscurrents

Offering a highly analytical yet balanced approach, Juvenile Delinquency: Mainstream and Crosscurrents, Third Edition, encourages students to think critically about important real-world issues including the effects of inequality, race, class, and gender on juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system. Lively, engaging, and accessible, it is ideal for juvenile delinquency courses in both criminal justice and sociology departments.FEATURESA critical approach highlighting issues of race, class, gender, and inequalityStraightforward explanations of theory, history, gender, and international issues Crosscurrents boxes on engaging and controversial challenges in the field Rich pedagogical features including critical-thinking questions as captions for photos, Focus on Ethics boxes, and Learning Objectives that are keyed to the Summary tablesAn online Ancillary Resource Center (ARC) containing an Instructor’s Manual, a Computerized Test Bank, and PowerPoint-based lecture slidesAn open-access Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/fuller that provides additional resources for students