{"product_id":"2940148977513","title":"Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders","description":"KIDS WHO COMMIT ADULT CRIMES: Serious Criminality, by Juvenile Offenders, from award winning and bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an examination of today’s serious, chronic, and violent youthful offender. This vital book explores the disturbing relationship between youth and serious, violent antisocial behavior in America, examining its antecedents, its onset, and its situational and motivating factors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to the author: “The increasingly serious nature of juvenile criminal behavior has been felt across the country as youth violence, violent youth gangs, drug-related offenses, and other delinquent and criminal conduct has changed the way we regard minors and delinquent behavior. Recent times have seen an explosion in school tragedies, juvenile homicides, teen battering, date rape, youth family violence, teenage alcohol and drug abuse, and related youthful offenses.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKids Who Commit Adult Crimes, divided into four parts, takes an incisive look at these issues and more. Part I explores serious juvenile crime, including its magnitude; youth violence; kids, drugs, and crime; school crime and violence; youth gangs and criminality; dating violence; and family violence. Part II examines explanations of juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior from biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives. Part III addresses juvenile crime and the justice system, including the police and juvenile offenders, youths and the juvenile and adult courts, and juvenile offenders in custody and confinement. Part IV examines responses to the problem of serious and violent juvenile offending and its precursors, including federal laws and prevention, intervention, and control strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKids Who Commit Adult Crimes goes farther in its examination of youth who commit adult-like violence than other books in the field, with chapters on dating violence and family violence, in addition to school and gang violence, substance abuse issues, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A broad overview of adolescent deviance... An excellent multidisciplinary theoretical base for explaining this most pervasive phenomenon. The text also provides an excellent historical chronology of adolescent offending and the means used to rehabilitate this population.... Very useful for anyone studying juvenile delinquency.\" -- Cassandra Bowers, PhD, Lecturer and BSW Program Coordinator, Wayne State University School of Social Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential handbook for criminology students.... Easy to digest. The structure of the book follows the format of most criminology courses with a strong section on intrafamilial causes of delinquency. The section on dating violence will be especially useful in the college classroom.\" -- Randy Blazak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Portland State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORE PRAISE FOR CRIMINOLOGY AND TRUE CRIME BOOKS BY R. 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