Youth, Crime, and Justice is a comprehensive introduction to juvenile justice through a unique case-study approach. Each chapter opens with an engaging case, followed by an explanatory chapter that teaches core concepts, key terms, and critical issues.This accessible textbook covers the historical evolution of the core institutions charged with the socialization, guidance, and regulation of children and youth in the modern era, including the family, schools, communities, child welfare, and the juvenile justice system. Adopting a life course perspective, the book examines the changing legal, social, and political landscape of childhood and adolescence in America. The authors take an intersectional focus, examining the dynamics of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, power, and privilege. The book discusses the juvenile justice system, including police, courts, corrections, and recent community innovations, in relation to the latest research on positive youth development and best practices.A complimentary Instructors Manual and Test Bank are available, as well as an open-access Companion Website for students that includes interactive flashcards and other learning material. Visithttp://textbooks.rowman.com/gebo or emailtextbooks@rowman.com for more information.

Erika Gebois associate professor of sociology and director of the graduate program in Crime and Justice Studies at Suffolk University. She is the co-editor ofLooking Beyond Suppression: Community Responses to Gang Violence.Carolyn Boyes-Watson is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University. She is the author ofCrime and Justice: Learning through Cases.

Part I: Foundations of Youth, Crime, and JusticeChapter 1: Youth, Society, and the LawCase Study 1: Judging GinaChapter 2: Youth and Developmental InstitutionsCase Study 2: Saving or Exploiting Children?Chapter 3: Paradigms of Youth JusticeCase Study 3: A Tragedy or a Crime?Part II: Pathways to CrimeChapter 4: Delinquency, Victimization, and Pathways to Offending for BoysCase Study 4: Learning the CodeChapter 5: Delinquency, Victimization, and Pathways to Offending for GirlsCase Study 5: Addicted to Love: Growing Up on the TrackChapter 6: Gangs and Serious, Violent, Chronic OffendersCase Study 6: Confessions of a Former Latin KingChapter 7: Youth, Schools, and Problem BehaviorsCase Study 7: Understanding the Horror at Columbine High SchoolPart III: The Contemporary Juvenile Justice SystemChapter 8: Youth and PoliceCase Study 8: Victor RiosChanging What Police SeeChapter 9: Youth and the CourtsCase Study 9: Judging Our YouthChapter 10: Youth and CorrectionsCase Study 10: From Punishment to RehabilitationChapter 11: Prevention, Intervention, and the Future of the Juvenile Justice SystemCase Study 11: A Matter of Degrees