Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Describe how adolescents are different from young adults, developmentally, socially, cognitively, and biologically.
- Explain how zero-tolerance-focused juvenile justice and school-based discipline policies afford little flexibility and reinforce punishment pathways.
- Discern the important role police officers have in front-line delinquency decision-making.
- Discuss the process of delinquency adjudication and how it opens the door to further juvenile and adult justice involvement.
- Examine the impact of detention and incarceration placements on youthful offenders, including reduced chances for rehabilitation and increased trauma experiences.
- Appraise the impact of transfer laws on adolescents held in adult correctional facilities.
- Summarize the current laws and recent changes on youthful offenders transferring to the adult criminal justice system.