Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention
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 pres
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James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury Editors
From Children to Citizens Volume III
Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention·
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James Q. Wilson Graduate School of Management University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90024 U.S.A.
Glenn C. Loury John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A.
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Library of Congress Catalogmg m Publication Data Families, schools, and delinquency prevention. (From children to citizens ; v. III) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Juvenile delinquency-United StatesPrevention-Congresses. 2. Family social workUnited States-Congresses. 3. Education, PreschoolSocial aspects-United States-Congresses. 4. Home and school-United States-Congresses. 1. Wilson, James Q. II. Loury, Glenn C. III. Series. HV9104.F35 1987 362.7'4'0973 86-28054 © 1987 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1987
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Preface
The essays in this volume result from the convergence of two streams of activity. The first stream was an effort, led by Professor Mark Moore of Harvard University, to think through the current status and future prospects of the juvenile court and the juvenile justice system in the United States. With the support of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Moore convened a series of conferences on this subject, involving scholars, judges, prosecutors, and others who shared a desire to resolve some of the debates and to clarify the uncertainty surrounding what the juvenile court should and could do. The fruits of those deliberations are contained in the first two volumes of this series: a book by Moore on the role of the court (From Children to Citizens, Volume I: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice) and a collection of essays, edited by Francis X. Hartmann, providing various perspectives on that role (From Children to Citizens, Volume II: The Role of the Juvenile Court). These conferences and essays left Moore and others dissatisfied: Something was missing. It was possible, perhaps, to clarify the mission of the juvenil
