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A comparison of mediated and non‐mediated juvenile offender cases in California
Author(s) -
Shichor David,
Sechrest Dale K.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.1998.tb00779.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , juvenile , criminology , boom , population , political science , psychology , demography , sociology , engineering , biology , ecology , environmental engineering
Juvenile delinquency is a major public concern in the United States, and increasingly in many other industrialized countries. The last few years have seen a decline in officially recorded juvenile delinquency (Snyder, 1997). However, projections are that with the anticipated increase of the U.S. teenage population because of the echo baby boom generation, serious juvenile crime will substantially increase in the next few years (see Fox, 1996).