A comprehensive guide to the juvenile justice system that provides information on how children are impacted by American law, whether it pertains to their own actions or the actions of the adults in their lives.
Discusses gun violence as it relates to teens, provides a look at the gun control debate, and offers strategies to help young people give up guns and use other problem solving techniques.
Young people whose lives have been impacted by violence and crime, either as perpetrators or as victims, tell their stories. Also includes comments from concerned adults who work with these teens.
The author recounts his growing up in poverty in Los Angeles, his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, and his struggle to overcome prejudice, drugs, and violence.
This book defines different types of crimes committed by young people between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, the causes, the consequences, and possible ways to prevent crime.
Helps teens to understand what violent behavior is, where is occurs, and why; and offers advice on making good choices regarding peer pressure and gang involvement.
In an attempt to please her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with a plan to rob a convenience store, and when her father refuses the judge's offer to let her come home on probation, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
