Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice brings together academic learning and practical exposure to real-life events in a way that empowers students to better understand how what they learn in-class applies to the larger criminal justice picture. Author and professor, Robert McNamara facilitates a learning process that goes beyond memorization to engagement with relevant, practical social applications and analyses. Students’ critical thinking skills are strengthened by studying actual case studies, and applying what they’ve learned to determine the best course of action. Additionally, video assignments that include footage of actual juveniles in detention and practitioners will question preconceptions and myths that students may have. Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice breaks down the barriers between theory and practice, and allows students to connect with course material in a whole new way.

The Nature of Dilinquency Measuring Delinquency Status Offending Social Structural Theories of Delinquency Social Progcess Theories of Delinquency Individual Views of Delinquency Family and Delinquency Gangs and Delinquency Special Populations and Delinquency Schools and Delinquency Gender and Delinquency Delinquency Prevention Law Enforcement and Delinquency The Juvenile Court System Corrections and Delinquency