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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Small steps	Louis Sachar	Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. Th…	OL116257W
Getting ghost	Luke Bergmann	When doing research inside Detroit’s downtown juvenile detention facility, Luke Bergmann befriended Dude Freeman and Rodney Phelps — both petty drug dealers facing profoundly uncertain futures, livin…	OL11983308W
Just in time	Fracaswell Hyman	The Ghostwriter Team must solve a crime that took place in 1928! A 12 year-old orphan has been falsely accused of stealing a fancy silver tea set from the family he's living with. The team learns of …	OL15547654W
Juvenile justice	Francine T. Sherman	"Troubled youth intersect with many government systems, but few as frequently and critically as with juvenile justice. This edited volume brings together experts in juvenile justice, child developmen…	OL15933718W
Literacy	Jennifer Sweeney	"This exploration of juvenile corrections librarianship provides a complete description of these specialized services, addresses unique challenges in this library environment, and promotes intellectu…	OL16283075W
The child who	Simon Lelic	A quiet English town is left reeling when twelve-year-old Daniel Blake is discovered to have brutally murdered his schoolmate Felicity Forbes. For provincial solicitor Leo Curtice, the case promis…	OL16308112W
Kids, cops, and confessions	Barry C. Feld	Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, which heightens their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use …	OL16688906W
Einmal Verbrecher - immer Verbrecher?	Wolfgang Stelly,Jürgen Thomas	Ist abweichendes Verhalten die Folge stabiler Persönlichkeitsmerkmale oder resultiert es aus variablen Bedingungen der sozialen Umwelt? Diese alte, aber immer noch aktuelle Kontroverse bildet den Hin…	OL16805431W
The delinquent girl	Margaret A. Zahn	"Over the past decade and a half, girls' involvement in the juvenile justice system has increased. Yet the topic remains understudied by criminologists. The Delinquent Girl is a "state-of-the-field" …	OL18345002W
Reluctant Gangsters	John Pitts	"This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pos…	OL184102W
X	Ilyasah Shabazz	Co-written by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world. Malcolm Little's parents have always told him th…	OL19671023W
Niños en el crimen	Julio Scherer García	"¿Qué oculta el alma del niño asesino?", se pregunta Julio Scherer García en estas páginas llenas de violencia y sufrimiento, resultado del trabajo de reportero que realizó en la Comunidad de Tratami…	OL20003278W
The light that gets lost	Natasha Carthew	A small boy hiding in a cupboard witnesses something no child should ever see. He tries not to look but he still hears it. And when he comes out, there is no mistaking. His mum and dad have been kill…	OL20832928W
Born, not raised	Susan Madden Lankford	"In the final volume of her trilogy on interlinked social issues, [the author] explores the troubled psyches of young people incarcerated in Juvenile Hall. The perspectives of psychiatrists, neurosci…	OL20887897W
The death penalty for teens	Nancy Day	Examines both sides of the debate over whether teens under the age of eighteen should be sentenced to death for committing murder.	OL20972064W
The Golden Catapult	Cavan Scott	When Dennis, Gnasher and the rest of the infamous Menace Squad find out about a rare and legendary artefact, they set off on an amazing adventure to track it down.	OL21182989W
Juvenile justice in Russia	Piotr Dutkiewicz	181 p. : 26 cm.+	OL23438443W
June and Justin	P. D. Workman	"Justin had made a mistake. A big, life-changing mistake. He already failed June once. He wasn't there when she needed him, and because of him, their lives will never be the same. June is everything …	OL24175133W
Saving Justice	Susan Crawford	After losing her brother to gang-related violence, elementary school teacher Kinley is on a mission to help her at-risk students. When one of them, Justice, is caught in an act of vandalism, she inte…	OL26442363W
Life Style and Criminality	Hans Göppinger	This monograph contains the results of an interdisciplinary study into the life histories of male delinquents. Conducted by the Institute of Criminology at the University of Tübingen, it compares the…	OL2877551W