Juvenile Justice

John T. Whitehead is a Professor and former Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Tennessee State University. He completed his M.A. at the University of Notre Dame and earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from SUNY-Albany. He teaches courses in corrections, criminal justice ethics, and the death penalty. Steven P. Lab is Professor of Criminal Justice and Chair of the Department of Human Services.　He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from the Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.　Dr. Lab is the author or coauthor of five books, the editor/coeditor of two readers, and coeditor of one encyclopedia.　He is the author of more than 50 articles or book chapters and has presented more than 70 papers to academic or professional societies. He is a past editor of the Journal of Crime and Justice and has been an assistant editor or on the editorial boards of several additional journals. Dr. Lab has been a visiting professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science of the University College London and at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University (England) and a Research Consultant with the Perpetuity Research Group at Leicester University (England).　Dr. Lab has received grant funding for several large research projects from the National Institute of Justice, and has served as a consultant to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, the Arizona Governor’s Office, and various offices of the U.S. Department of Justice.　Dr. Lab is also a past-president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1. Introduction—The Definition and Extent of Delinquency 2. The History of Juvenile Justice 3. Explaining Delinquency—Biological and Psychological Approaches 4. Sociological Explanations of Delinquency 5. Gang Delinquency 6. Drugs and Delinquency 7. Policing and Juveniles 8. The Juvenile Court Process 9. Due Process and Juveniles 10.　Institutional/Residential Interventions 11. Juvenile Probation and Community Corrections 12. Restorative Justice 13. The Victimization of Juveniles 14. Future Directions in Juvenile Justice