Overview
First comprehensive review of juvenile justice laws, policies and practices since the emergence of new democracies in Eastern Europe, including four of the new democracies and re-unified Germany
Most comprehensive review of juvenile justice laws, policies and practices including 19 separate countries
Analytical approach to comparative juvenile justice systems categorizing them by conceptual orientation
Integration of statistics on juvenile delinquency
Strong comparative orientation to the book
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Anglo-Saxon Orientation
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Western Continental Europe
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Josine Junger-Tas studied Sociology at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and obtained her PhD degree in the Netherlands at the University of Groningen. She was employed by the Dutch Ministry of Justice in its Research Institute and was appointed as Director of the Institute in 1989. She was active in the Council of Europe chairing an Expert Committee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1989. In 1992 she was appointed member of its Scientific Council. She was also active in the United Nations, where she also did preparatory work for the UN Criminology congresses. In 1989 she received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for her ‘Contributions to Criminology’. In 1994 she was appointed professor of Youth Criminology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. She taught Self-report methodology at the University of Cambridge for three years and since 2002 she is visiting professor at the University of Utrecht. In 2000 the University of Lausanne awarded her an Honorary doctorate. In the same year -with several colleagues- she launched the European Society of Criminology. At the first ESC conference in Lausanne she was elected the first ESC President. In November 2007 she received the Distinguished International Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.
Dr. Scott H. Decker is Professor and Director in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He received the BA in Social Justice from DePauw University, and the MA and PhD in Criminology from Florida State University. His main research interests are in the areas of gangs, criminal justice policy, and the offender's perspective. His most recent books include European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups (Winner of the American Society of Criminology, Division of International Criminology Outstanding Distinguished book award, 2006) and Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling: Lessons from the Inside (Temple University Press, 2008). His forthcoming book (with Hugh Barlow) Criminology and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work will be published in 2009 by Temple University Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Juvenile Justice
Editors: Josine Junger-Tas, Scott. H. Decker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09478-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09478-6Published: 28 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 549
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law