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Responding to Troubled Youth

by Cheryl L. Maxson , Malcolm W. Klein , Malcolm W. Klein
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780195098532
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: USD 51.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 518 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminology

This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in responding to these troubled and troublesome youths--discussed at length in this book--are known as the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales. In examining these philosophies, the authors consider the quality and quantity of response to and for status offenders at local community service outlets in seven different cities. In this way, Maxson and Klein are able to determine whether such response practices conform with the ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation.
The results will surprise many legislative and youth service policy professionals. Agency characteristics, service-delivery patterns, and youth clients do indeed reflect the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales, but in ways that have little bearing on the dominant philosophies embodied by state legislation.
Special chapters are devoted to those minors most likely to slip through the safety-net of youth service --chronic runaways and street kids. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for lawmakers and policy developers.

Cheryl Maxson has directed research studies on national, state, and local issues. She has written several articles on street gangs, status offenders, police response to juveniles, juvenile justice legislation, drug sales, and community treatment of juvenile offenders.
Malcolm Klein is the author of many books, including The American Street Gang (OUP, 1996). He is the recipient of the Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology.

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