Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach

657 Pages·2015·5.952 MB·English

by  James Burfeind, Dawn Jeglum Bartusch

Juvenile Delinquency
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to juvenile delinquency by defining and describing juvenile
delinquency, examining explanations for delinquent behavior, and considering contemporary efforts to control
delinquency through prevention and juvenile justice. The text cultivates an understanding of juvenile
delinquency by examining and linking key criminological theories and research. Coverage includes:
• the historical origins and transformation of “juvenile delinquency” and juvenile justice;
• the nature of delinquency, addressing the extent of delinquent offenses, the social correlates of offending
and victimization (age, gender, race and ethnicity, and social class), and the developmental patterns of
offending;
• theoretical explanations of delinquency, with insights from biosocial criminology, routine activities,
rational choice, social control, social learning, social structure, labeling, and critical criminologies;
• evidence-based practice in delinquency prevention and contemporary juvenile justice.
Fully revised and updated, the new edition incorporates the latest theory and research in the field of juvenile
delinquency and provides expanded discussion of contemporary juvenile justice reform, evidence-based
practice in delinquency prevention, and disproportionate minority contact throughout the juvenile justice
process. This book is essential reading for courses on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice.
The book is supported by a range of compelling pedagogical features. Each chapter includes key terms,
learning objectives, an opening case study, box inserts that provide practical application of theory and research,
critical thinking questions, suggested reading, useful websites, and a glossary of key terms. A companion
website offers an array of resources for students and instructors. For students, this website provides chapter
overviews, flashcards of key terms, and useful websites. The instructor site is password protected and offers a
complete set of PowerPoint slides and an extensive test bank for each chapter—all prepared by the authors.
James Burfeind is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Montana. He earned a PhD in Criminology
and Urban Sociology from Portland State University in Oregon. He is co-author with Ted Westermann of
Crime and Justice in Two Societies: Japan and the United States, and has received a number of teaching awards,
including “Most Inspirational Teaching,” a university-wide award chosen by graduating seniors.
Dawn Jeglum Bartusch is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Valparaiso University in
Indiana. She earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research has
appeared in Criminology, Social Forces, Law and Society Review, and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
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Whether you are bound for a leadership career in criminal justice or you want to become a star
researcher in criminology, Juvenile Delinquency in its third edition will make you the expert. This text
is the ideal combination of organized and practical to aid mastery, but also intellectually stimulating,
to make learning engaging and exciting. This edition is remarkably up to date. Chapter six taught me
interesting new facts about developmental criminology!
Terrie Moffitt, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University,
Durham, NC
Burfeind and Bartusch’s text provides excellent coverage of key topics and themes that are central to
the study of juvenile delinquency. The book is well written, nicely organized and presents juvenile
delinquency research in a clear and concise manner that is accessible to students. I have been using
the book since its first edition and continue to be pleased with student learning outcomes and
feedback on the book.
Dusten Hollist, University of Montana, Missoula
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Juvenile Delinquency
An integrated approach
Third edition
James Burfeind and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch
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Third edition published 2016
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First edition published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. 2006
Second edition published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Names: Burfeind, James W., 1953– | Bartusch, Dawn Jeglum.
Title: Juvenile delinquency : an integrated approach / James Burfeind
and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch.
Description: Third Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2016. | Revised edition
of the authors’ Juvenile delinquency, 2011. Identifiers: LCCN 2015025492 |
ISBN 9781138843196 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138843202 (pbk.) |
ISBN 9781315731094 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Juvenile delinquency.  |  Juvenile justice, Administration of.
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To my wonderful wife, Linda. Your love and support is constant, and you make life fun and fulfilling.
– J.B.
To my parents, Patricia and Steven Jeglum, for their support at every stage of my life, and for
teaching me the value of hard work and determination.
– D.J.B.
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I
Studying juvenile delinquency
 1 The study of juvenile delinquency
Understanding juvenile delinquency
Developing and evaluating theories of delinquency
Purposes of delinquency research
Causal analysis
Summary and conclusions
 2 “Juvenile delinquency” and juvenile justice: origins and transformation
The social construction of “juvenile delinquency”
Inventing juvenile justice: institutional responses to juvenile delinquency
Reforming juvenile justice: transformation of juvenile justice philosophy, policy, and practice
Legal definitions of “juvenile delinquency”
Summary and conclusions
 3 Measuring delinquency
Research methods for studying crime and delinquency
Sources of data on crime and delinquency
Summary and conclusions
Part II
Describing the nature of delinquency
 4 The extent of offenses
Prevalence and incidence of delinquent offenses
Relative frequency of different types of offenses
Trends in delinquent offenses
The ecology of juvenile offenses: spatial and temporal distribution
Summary and conclusions
 5 The social correlates of offending and victimization
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Age
Gender
Race and ethnicity
Social class
Victimization
Summary and conclusions
 6 Developmental patterns of offending
“Chronic offenders” and “career criminals”
The developmental perspective
Developmental models of delinquent behavior
Summary and conclusions
Part III
Explaining delinquent behavior
 7 Biosocial criminology
Early biological approaches: focusing on physical characteristics
Contemporary biological approaches in biosocial criminology
Personality and biosocial criminology
Intelligence and delinquency
Summary and conclusions
 8 The delinquent event: situational aspects, routine activities, and rational choice
Situational aspects of delinquency
The experience of delinquency
Routine activities: opportunities for delinquency
Drifting into delinquency
Choosing delinquency: rational choice theory
Summary and conclusions
 9 Social control theories: family relations
Informal social control
Social control theories
Characteristics of family life and informal social control
Summary and conclusions
10 Social learning theories: peer group influences
Companions in crime: the group character of delinquency
Theoretical views of peers and delinquency behavior
Peer group influences
Street gangs
Summary and conclusions
11 Social structure theories: community, strain, and subcultures
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Social disorganization theory
Anomie and strain theories
Summary and conclusions
12 Labeling and critical criminologies
The labeling perspective
Critical criminologies
Feminist criminology
Summary and conclusions
Part IV
Responding to juvenile delinquency
13 Delinquency prevention, assessment, and early intervention
Responding to delinquency: the role of theory and research
Delinquency prevention
Assessment and early intervention
Summary and conclusions
14 Contemporary juvenile justice
Structure of juvenile justice systems: decentralized and fragmented
Juvenile justice process: discretion, diversion, and disproportionate minority contact
Policing juveniles
Juvenile court process: informal and formal
Juvenile corrections
Summary and conclusions
Index
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Figures
4.1 Percentage of arrests involving juveniles
4.2 Prevalence trends in self-reported delinquency among high school seniors: serious fight, theft,
unauthorized entry, and arrest, 1988–2012
4.3 Thirty-day prevalence trends in self-reported alcohol, marijuana, illicit drug (other than marijuana),
prescription drug, and cigarette use among high school seniors, 1989–2013
4.4 Juvenile arrest rate for Violent Crime Index offenses, 1980–2012
4.5 Juvenile arrest rate for Property Crime Index offenses, 1980–2012
4.6a Violent crime time-of-day profile by offender age
4.6b Juvenile violent crime time-of-day profiles by type of day
5.1 The “age–crime curve”
5.2 Victimization rates for violent crimes, by age, 2013
6.1 Approximate ordering of the different manifestations of disruptive and antisocial behaviors in childhood
and adolescence
6.2 Moffitt’s adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offenders
7.1 The human brain
7.2 Eysenck’s superfactors of extraversion and neuroticism
7.3 The heritability of personality
9.1 The priority of low self-control
11.1 Zones of delinquency in Chicago, 1900–1906
11.2 Sampson and Grove’s model of social disorganization
12.1 Matsueda’s model of reflected appraisals and behavior
12.2 Competing models of sanctions and future deviance
12.3 Hagan’s revised model of power-control theory
14.1 The juvenile justice process
14.2 Method of handling juveniles taken into custody, 1972–2013
14.3 Juvenile court processing of delinquency cases, 2011
14.4 Juvenile court processing of petitioned status offense cases, 2011
14.5 A model of probation supervision
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