Contents PARTⅠ: History of the legal and social definitions of juvenile delinquency 1. The Child-Saving Movement and the Origins of the Juvenile Justice System 2. Attitudes and Policies Toward Juvenile Delinquency in the United States: A Historiographical Review 3. The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era 4. History Overtakes the Juvenile Justice System PARTⅡ: Theories of Juvenile Delinquency 5. Social Structure and Anomic 6. Social Learning and Deviant Behavior: A Specific Test of General Theory 7. A Control Theory of Delinquency 8. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency 9. Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach 10. Poverty, Income Inequality, and Community Crime Rates 11. Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency 12. Girls, Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency 13. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency PARTⅢ: The social context of juvenile delinquency 14. At the Roots of Violence: The Progressive Decline and Desolution of the Family 15. Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society 16. School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency 17. The Neophyte Female Delinquent: A Review of the Literature 18. Recent Gang Research: Program and Policy Implications 19. Players and Ho's 20. The Saints and the Roughnecks PARTⅣ: Institutional Responses to juvenile delinquency 21. The Gault Decision: Due Process and the Juvenile Courts 22. A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure and Inmate Subcultures in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders 23. Juvenile Diversion: A Look at the Record 24. Juvenile Parole Policy in the United States: Determinate versus Indeterminate Models 25. Females Under the Law: `Protected` but Unequal 26. Restitution and Recidivism Rates of Juvenile Offenders: Results from Four Experimental Studies PARTⅤ: Juvenile Delinquency and public Policy 27. Rethinking the Juvenile Justice System 28. Juvenile Justice and the Blind Lady 29. A Policy Maker's Guide to Controlling Delinquency and Crime through Family Interventions 30. Serious and Violent Juvenile Crime: A Comprehensive Strategy 31. Emerging Trends and Issues in Juvenile Justice