Juvenile Justice Administration: Processes and Issues

by Peter C. Kratcoski

Overview

This second edition textbook focuses on the duties of juvenile justice administrators, featuring more illustrations, examples of programs, and interviews of juvenile justice administrators. The edition is updated to address critical issues in the field, including:

• Recruitment
• Training and retention of juvenile justice personnel
• Reducing violence
• Providing security for youth housed in juvenile correctional facilities
• Diversion programs
• Viable community corrections programs
• Mass media and the community as it relates to juvenile justice administrators

Divided into five distinct sections, this book is ideal for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners studying or working with young offenders or juvenile justice administration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031195174
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/02/2023
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2023
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Charles Kratcoski earned a PhD in sociology from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, an MA in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; and a BA in sociology from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was selected for several postdoctoral grants by the National Science Foundation. He taught at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, and at the Pennsylvania State University before assuming the position of assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in 1969. He retired as professor of criminal justice studies and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Kent State University, where he is currently a professor emeritus and adjunct professor. His most recent writing and research have centered on juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, collaborative policing, correctional counseling, financial crimes, corruption and fraud, and victimization of the elderly.

Table of Contents

Section I Introduction to Juvenile Justice Administration

1) The juvenile Justice System

2) Administrative Principles and Tasks of Juvenile Justice Administrators

3) Decision Making by Juvenile Justice Agencies (Roles of Juvenile Justice

Section II The Administration of Juvenile Justice Agencies

4) Administration of Agencies Serving Endangered Children

5) Family Law Pertaining to Children at Risk

6) Administration of Juvenile Justice by Policing Agencies

7) Administration of Security and Safety in the Schools

Section III Administration of the Juvenile Justice Process

8) Juvenile Law

9) Juvenile Court Administration: Diversion and Informal Processing

10) Juvenile Court Administration: Formal Processing

Section IV: Trends in Juvenile Justice Administration

11) Administration of Probation, Parole, and Community Sanctions

12) Administration of Juvenile Correctional Facilities

13) Future Trends in Juvenile Justice Administration