Power-Control Theory

Authors

Laurie A. Gould, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow
Brenda Blackwell, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

6-2015

Publication Title

The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

ISBN

9781118513170

Abstract

This handbook is an up-to-date examination of advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice that includes interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners.

• Examines advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice with interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners
• Provides a current state of both fields, while also assessing where they have been and defining where they should go in years to come
• Addresses developments in theory, research, and policy, as well as cultural changes and legal shifts
• Contains summaries of juvenile justice trends from around the world, including the US, the Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, and China
• Covers central issues in the scholarly literature, such as social learning theories, opportunity theories, criminal processing, labeling and deterrence, gangs and crime, community-based sanctions and reentry, victimization, and fear of crime

Recommended Citation

Gould, Laurie A., Brenda Blackwell. 2015. "Power-Control Theory." The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, Marvin Krohn and Jodi Lane (Ed.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. source: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118513177.html isbn: 9781118513170
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/crimjust-criminology-facpubs/67

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