Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 Patterns and Trends in Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice; 5 The Development of Delinquency; 6 Preventing Juvenile Crime; 7 The Juvenile Justice System; 8 Race, Crime, and Juvenile Justice: The Issue of Racial Disparity; 9 References; 10 Appendix A: Definition of Offenses Used in Uniform Crime Reporting; 11 Appendix B: The Indeterminancy of Forecasts of Crime Rates and Juvenile Offenses; 12 Appendix C: Workshop Agendas; 13 Appendix D: Biographical Sketches; 14 Index

About the Author

Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control, Committee on Law and Justice, and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council, and Institute of Medicine