Responding to Troubled Youth

Malcolm W Klein author Cheryl L Maxson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:14th Aug '97

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This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth 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 are the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales. Local community services' response to status offenders in seven cities are investigated to determine whether local practices conform with the ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation.

"Maxson and Klein have done a remarkable job in pinpointing some of the ongoing problems that communities face in dealing with the juvenile status offender."--Choice "Maxson and Klein have done a remarkable job in pinpointing some of the ongoing problems that communities face in dealing with the juvenile status offender."--Choice

ISBN: 9780195098532

Dimensions: 164mm x 243mm x 19mm

Weight: 517g

224 pages