juvenile delinquency

Offers a comprehensive overview of juvenile crime, with a chronology of important events, glossary of terms, biographical listing, complete index, and a fully annotated bibliography.

Explores the history of gangs, the life of gang members, and the reasons members join.

Thirteen young people in prisons tell their stories.

Describes what parents, school, and communities can do to help teenagers face the dangers so common in today's society.

Thirteen-year-old Billy lives with a gang on the streets of New York City stealing for clothes and food. When he is caught, he is given a chance to live with a nice farm family in Nebraska. Is he such a bad kid that he cannot change?.

Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.

After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Harmony Lake, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.

A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.