Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Families, Children, and Delinquency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Family as Context for Delinquency Prevention: Demographic Trends and Political Realities

      • Glenn C. Loury

      Pages 3-26

   3. Early Precursors of Frequent Offending

      • David P. Farrington

      Pages 27-50

   4. Biomedical Problems in Juvenile Delinquency: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

      • Richard Barnum

      Pages 51-84

3. Promising Interventions: Family Training

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. What Policy Makers and Practitioners Can Learn from Family Studies of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency

      • Rolf Loeber

      Pages 87-111

   3. Contingency Management with Oppositional Children: Some Critical Teaching Issues for Parents

      • Robert G. Wahler

      Pages 112-131

4. Promising Interventions: Preschool and School Programs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Can Preschool Programs Help Prevent Delinquency?

      • Lawrence J. Schweinhart

      Pages 135-153

   3. The Implications of Early Intervention Efforts for the Primary Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency

      • Edward Zigler, Nancy W. Hall

      Pages 154-185

   4. Delinquency Prevention Through Parent Training: Results and Issues from Work in Progress

      • J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, Gwen Jones, David Fine

      Pages 186-204

5. The Family and Public Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Giving the Juvenile Court a Preschool Education

      • Douglas J. Besharov

      Pages 207-238

   3. The Federal Government and the Family

      • Leslie Lenkowsky

      Pages 239-256

   4. Delinquency Prevention and Labeling

      • Charles F. Wellford

      Pages 257-267

   5. Multiproblem Families and the Community

      • Brigitte Berger

      Pages 268-288

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. Strategic Opportunities for Delinquency Prevention

      • James Q. Wilson

      Pages 291-311

7. Back Matter

   Pages 313-340

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Are there ways to intervene early in a child's life that might reduce, at a reasonable cost, the probability of his becoming a serious delinquent? The results of some small-scale social experiments have been published suggesting that certain kinds of preschool education and parent training might have desirable and lasting effects. In addition, there is growing evidence that some kinds of medical intervention and certain forms of school organization and ethos could help reduce the rate of misconduct. The authors provide a full-scale assessment of the evidence that might lead to the design of new research and action efforts.

• Government
• diagnosis
• intervention
• prevention

• Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  James Q. Wilson

• John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Glenn C. Loury

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