Juvenile Justice Administration: Processes and Issues, Edition 2
Feb 2023 · Springer Nature
Ebook
287
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About this ebook
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
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.
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