This Campbell systematic review examines the effects police‐initiated diversion programs
on delinquent behavior, compared to traditional system processing. The review summarizes …

The age-crime curve, increasing to a peak in the teenage years and then decreasing, is well-
known. Less well-known is that it seems to reflect variations in prevalence (the proportion of …

Careful reading of the literature on the psychology of criminal conduct and of prior reviews of
studies of treatment effects suggests that neither criminal sanctioning without provision of …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

Delinquency evaluates one of the largest longitudinal-observational studies of juvenile
delinquents ever conducted. Utilizing a normal population sample and conducting individual …

Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday
phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do about it? In Policing …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Our main concern is to advance knowledge about the onset of delinquency and crime. When
a person commits an offense for the first time, it is only future experience that can establish …

Debate over the effectiveness of correctional treatment has been raging for over a decade.
The view that “nothing works” dominates in the mind of the public and relies on many early …

The concept of restorative justice was in its infancy when New Zealand introduced Family
Group Conferences as a way of responding to young people who offend. Ê This novel …