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Juveniles in Contemporary Society: Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, First Edition

Authors
  • Saundra D. Trujillo
  • L. Thomas Winfree Jr.
  • Carlos E. Posadas
Series / Aspen Criminal Justice Series
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Table of contents
Preface

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Juveniles in Contemporary Society: Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency is an authoritative and well-crafted introduction to today's Juvenile Justice system. Using a thematic framework that supports analysis, the authors provide an integrated approach to topical coverage. Through clear writing, an interdisciplinary selection of sources, and thoughtful themes, authors Saundra D. Trujillo, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Carlos E. Posadas illuminate the roles of history and theory in shaping today's juvenile justice system. Helpful pedagogy consistently supports understanding, retention, and review.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Diverse author team who bring a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to the text.
  • Theoretical Reflections boxes that integrate overarching themes throughout the text.
  • Comparative and international insights grounded in the content of each chapter, with International Perspectives boxes included throughout the book.
  • Understandable historical review of both juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency.
  • Compelling vignettes that open each chapter, raising questions about the themes to be explored, illustrating basic concepts, and fueling class discussion
  • Helpful graphs and tables illustrate the key topics.
  • Excellent Critical Thinking questions at the end of each chapter.
Unique chapters that are key to the study of Juvenile Justice today:
  • Chapter 5, Understanding Delinquency: Theories of Race, Ethnicity and Gender and Chapter 12, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Highlights from Recent Research explore the impacts of social constructions like gender, race, and ethnicity on youths' interactions with the justice system.
  • Chapter 6, Delinquency Prevention addresses prevention and intervention from both philosophical and practical perspectives, discussing what works and what does not work and some of the reasons behind program success or failure.
  • Chapter 11, Juvenile Probation and Aftercare provides thoughtful and in-depth discussion of this often-overlooked topic.
  • Chapter 13, Youth Gangs and Violence highlights a national issue and shows how theory can inform research and how research can inform both policy and practice in the juvenile justice system.   
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About the authors
Saundra D. Trujillo
Assistant Professor
New Mexico State University

Dr. Saundra Trujillo is a native New Mexican who completed her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of New Mexico before joining the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she assisted on the G.R.E.A.T. II evaluation and earned her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

While completing her dissertation, Dr. Trujillo returned to New Mexico and taught for Central New Mexico Community College, where she worked closely with community partners and led a team focused on removing barriers for students impacted by the criminal justice system. Dr. Trujillo’s most recent research focuses on immigration, ethnicity, community-level correlates of crime, as well as juvenile justice and gang behavior.

L. Thomas Winfree
Arizona State University

Before leaving Arizona State University and retiring from academia in 2014, Tom Winfree spent nearly 40 years studying prisons and jails in the United States and across the globe. He published extensively on inmate responses to institutional living conditions, including prisonization, suicide, and rebellion, as well as a textbook co-authored with his colleague Larry Mays on corrections that is in its fourth edition (Essentials of Corrections, 2014, Wiley Blackwell).

Beyond prisons and jails, Tom also spent much of his career looking at the problems of youth in contemporary society, particularly the misuse of drugs by adolescents and the role of street gangs in youthful socialization. In this latter regard, he also expanded his vistas to look internationally at gangs in other nations, including published works about youth gangs in the Netherlands, Germany, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He continues to collaborate with colleagues in the Eurogang Project, as that group endeavors to define and examine troublesome youth groups in Europe. Tom’s interests in contemporary youth led him to once again partner with Larry Mays, the product being Juvenile Justice (2012, Aspen Publishing).

The third leg of Tom Winfree’s scholarship centers on the development of criminological theory. Beyond adding to the body of criminological theory, largely by his expansion on and extension of social learning theory into youthful drug use (including American Indian youth and illicit drugs), street gangs, and terrorist groups, Tom, working with Howard Abadinsky, authored the third edition of Understanding Crime: Essentials of Criminological Theory (Wadsworth). This book is currently being revised for Waveland Press.

As a way of taking his contemporary academic scholarship back to the community, Dr. Winfree worked with local jails to redefine their jail inmate handling policies and practices. He testified as a jail expert in several jail death cases filed under 42 U.S.C. 1983 (Civil Action for Deprivation of Rights). He worked with local communities in examining their gang problems. In particular, he was a collaborator on the first National Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T., working under the supervision of Finn-Aage Esbensen, the project’s principal investigator. Winfree provided the City of Las Cruces with an assessment of its Municipal DWI Drug Court using an experimental design. He supervised dozens of master’s theses, including ones that have directly benefited the local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies employing the graduate students.

According to Google Scholar™, his more than 100 published works—articles, books, and book chapters—have been cited nearly 3,000 times. Winfree previously served as a member of the editorial boards for the following journals: Women and Criminal Justice, Crime & Delinquency, Youth & Society, and the Journal of Drug Issues.

While a faculty member at NMSU, Tom received the Dennis Darnell Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service (2003) and the International Programs Globalization Award (2006-2007). He has also been included in many Who’s Who publications over the past 30 years, but his favorite is Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (three times), as these nominations come from students.

Product Information
Edition
First Edition
Publication date
2024-02-01
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
544
Connected eBook + Paperback
9781543809107
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798889063285
Subject
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
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