Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Juvenile offenders and victims -- Myths and realities : how and what the public knows about crime and delinquency / Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III -- Age, gender, race, and rep : trends in juvenile offending and victimization / Richard McWhorter -- Home is where the hurt is : child abuse and delinquency / Robert L. Bing III -- Youth street gangs / Lorine A. Hughes -- Juvenile sex offending / Camille Gibson -- Bad boys in bars : hogging and humiliation / Jeannine A. Gailey and Ariane Prohaska -- Delinquency, alcohol, and drugs / Frances P. Reddington -- Where there's smoke : juvenile firesetting through stages of child development / Alan I. Feldberg, John H. Lemmon, and Thomas Austin -- Weapons of minors' destruction : youthful offenders and guns / H.R. "Rudy" Hardy Jr. -- Juveniles in cyberspace : risk and perceptions of victimization / Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams III, and Ming-Li Hsieh -- Mother blame and delinquency claims : juvenile delinquency and maternal responsibility / Bruce Hoffman and Thomas M. Vander Ven -- The great wall of China : cultural buffers and delinquency / Hsiao-Ming Wang -- v. 2. Juvenile justice -- Contemporary juvenile justice reform movements : theory, policy, and the future / Michael P. Brown and Jill M. D'Angelo -- Are we tough enough? : trends in juvenile sentencing / Attapol Kuanliang and Jon Sorensen -- Boys to men : transferring juveniles to adult court / David Myers -- Juvenile specialty courts / Victoria Simpson Beck, Lawrence F. Travis III, and Robert J. Ramsey -- Restorative justice and victim awareness / Alida V. Merlo and Peter J. Benekos -- Juvenile probation : supervision or babysitting? / Wesley A. Krause -- "You can't go home again" : disproportionate confinement of African American delinquents / John K. Mooradian -- Law and the treatment of mentally ill youth / Jon F. Farrar -- Initiating faith-based juvenile corrections : exercising without establishing religion / Lonn Lanza-Kaduce and Jodi Lane -- Cops in the classroom : assessing the appropriateness of search and seizure case law in schools / David Mueller and Richard Lawrence -- The death penalty for juveniles in the United States : an obituary / Robert M. Bohm -- v. 3. Juvenile treatment and crime prevention -- What works with juveniles? : intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation / Clete Snell and Beau Snell -- Delinquency programs that failed / Pamela J. Schram -- The role of police in school safety / Julie Kiernan Coon and Lawrence F. Travis III -- Juveniles and reintegrative shaming / Jennifer L. McGivern -- Making sense of community supervision : diversion and probation in postmodern juvenile justice / Gordon Bazemore and Leslie A. Leip -- Mandatory mental health treatment and juveniles / Barbara Belbot -- Faith-based juvenile justice initiatives / Edward J. Schauer, Elizabeth M. Wheaton, and Ila J. Schauer -- Resurrecting radical nonintervention : stop the war on kids / Randall G. Shelden -- Private versus public operation of juvenile correctional facilities / Chad R. Trulson and Craig Hemmens -- The future of delinquency prevention and treatment / Ronald Burns -- Projecting juvenile populations : a forecasting model / Pablo E. Martinez.