Juvenile delinquency

Black and White

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

African Americans, Basketball, fiction, High schools, Juvenile delinquency

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself

Buried treasure, fiction, Friendship, Homeless persons, Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile Crime

Marcia Satterthwaite

A sociological study of the causes and rates of crimes committed by people under eighteen years of age and of how these offenders are handled by the justice system. Includes case histories.

Justice, Administration of, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile delinquents, Juvenile justice, Administration of, United States

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Kids In And Out Of Trouble

Margaret O. Hyde

Drugs, gangs, violence at home and on the streets, lack of parental supervision, poverty and homelessness are some of the reasons juvenile crime is on the rise.

Juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, Juvenile justice, Administration of-United States, juvenile law, Juvnile delinquency-United States

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The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' deaths, and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

fiction, Juvenile delinquency

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