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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Nature and Extent of Delinquency | |
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| Adolescence and Delinquency | |
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| How the Treatment of Adolescents Has Changed in the United States | |
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| Youth at Risk Today | |
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| How the Juvenile Court Codes Affect the Definitions of Delinquent Behavior | |
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| What is a Status Offense? | |
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| How Juvenile Delinquents Have Been Handled in the United States | |
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| The Themes Used to Examine the Study of Delinquency | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency | |
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| The Contributions Made by Uniform Crime Reports to the Understanding of Delinquency | |
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| Juvenile Court Statistics | |
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| The Contributions Made by Cohort Studies | |
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| How Self-Report and Official Statistics Compare | |
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| The Contributions Made by Victimization Surveys | |
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| The Most Important Social Factors Related to Delinquency | |
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| The Dimensions of Delinquent Behavior | |
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| Delinquency Through the Life Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Causes of Delinquency | |
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| Theories of Individual Causes of Delinquency | |
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| The Contribution of the Classical School to the Understanding of Delinquency | |
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| The Insights Positivism Offers to the Understanding of Delinquency | |
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| Contemporary Approaches to the Rationality of Crime | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Theories of Social Structural Causes of Delinquency | |
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| Social Disorganization Theory | |
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| How Cultural Deviance Theory is Related to Delinquency | |
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| How Strain Affects Delinquent Behavior | |
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| The Relationship Between Social Stratification and Delinquency | |
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| Structural Explanations of Delinquency Across the Life Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Process Theories of Delinquency | |
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| Differential Association Theory | |
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| How Drift Theory is Related to Delinquency | |
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| The Relationship Between Social Control and Delinquent Behavior | |
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| How Integrated Theory Explains Delinquency | |
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| Social Process and Delinquency Across the Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Reaction Theories of Delinquency | |
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| How Labeling Theory Explains Delinquency | |
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| The Contributions of Symbolic Interactionist Theory to the Understanding of Delinquency | |
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| How Conflict Theory Explains Crime and Delinquency | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Environmental Influences on Delinquency | |
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| Gender and Delinquency | |
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| How is Gender Important in an Understanding of Delinquency? | |
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| Explanations of Female Delinquency | |
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| How Feminist Theories Can be Applied to an Understanding of Crime | |
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| A Feminist Theory of Delinquency | |
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| How Gender Bias Affects the Processing of the Female Delinquent | |
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| Gender Across the Life Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Family and Delinquency | |
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| How Adolescence and Family Problems Affect Delinquent Behavior | |
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| The Relationship Between the Family and Delinquency | |
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| Child Abuse and Neglect | |
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| How Child Abuse is Handled by the Child Welfare and the Juvenile Justice System | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The School and Delinquency | |
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| How Education Has Evolved in the United States | |
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| What Constitutes Crime in the Schools | |
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| Is There a Correlation Between Delinquency and School Failure? | |
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| Some of the Theoretical Perspectives on School and Delinquency | |
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| The Rights of Students | |
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| How Promising Partnerships Between the School and the Justice System Have Changed | |
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| The Most Promising Intervention Strategies in the School Setting | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Gangs and Delinquency | |
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| How Peer Groups and Gangs are Related | |
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| How Gangs Have Evolved in the United States | |
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| The Nature and Extent of Gang Activity | |
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| The Theories of Gang Formation | |
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| How Communities Can Prevent and Control Youth Gangs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Drugs and Delinquency | |
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| How Social Attitudes Are Related to Drug Use | |
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| The Prevalence and Incidence of Drug Use Among Adolescents | |
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| The Main Types of Drugs | |
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| The Relationship Between Drug Use and Delinquency | |
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| Is There a Correlation Between Chronic Offending and Drug Use? | |
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| Some of the Theoretical Explanations for the Onset of Drug Use | |
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| How Drug Use Can Be Prevented and Treated | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Preventing Juvenile Crime | |
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| Prevention, Diversion, and Treatment | |
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| Delinquency Prevention | |
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| How Diversion Works | |
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| The Treatment Debate | |
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| The Most Frequently Used Treatment Modalities | |
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| What Works for Whom and in What Context | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Control of Delinquency | |
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| An Overview of the Juvenile Justice Process | |
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| How the Structures and Functions of the Juvenile Justice System Work | |
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| The Relationship Between Treatment and Punishment in the Juvenile Justice System | |
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| How the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 Has Affected Juvenile Corrections | |
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| Do Graduated Sanctions Represent A New Day in Juvenile Justice? | |
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| Trends for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Police and the Juvenile | |
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| The History of Police-Juvenile Relations | |
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| Juveniles' Attitudes Toward the Police | |
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| How Juvenile Offenders Are Processed | |
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| The Legal Rights of Juveniles | |
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| How does the Prevention and Deterrence of Juvenile Offenders Take Place? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Juvenile Court | |
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| How the Juvenile Court Originated | |
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| How the Norms of the Juvenile Court have Changed | |
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| The Role Expectations of Juvenile Court Actors | |
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| Pretrial Procedures | |
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| What Happens During A Juvenile Trial? | |
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| The Juvenile Sentencing Structures | |
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| The Death Penalty for Juveniles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Critical Thinking Questions | |
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| Web Destinations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community-Based Treatment, and Institutionalization | |
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| Development of Community-Based and Institutional Corrections in the United States | |
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| Probation | |
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| The Roles Residential and Day Treatment Programs Play | |
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| Types of Institutional Placement for Juveniles | |
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| The Quality of Residential Life in Training Schools | |
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| The Rights of Confined Juveniles | |
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| How Juvenile Aftercare Works | |
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| Summary | |