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  1. Juvenile Justice Web Sites. The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University has constructed a number of useful Web links. See http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/jd.html. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has numerous publications available to download from their Web site http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org as does the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice http://www.cjcj.org/index.php.

  2. The Fourth Amendment and Public Schools. A series of papers on the topic of search and seizure an America's public schools appears in Criminal Law Bulletin 36 (September-October 2000).

  3. Youth, Guns, Gangs, and Violence. Several interesting books are available on these topics: Deanna L. Wilkinson, Guns, Violence, and Identity Among African American and Latino Youth (New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2003); Douglas Century, Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse (New York: Warner Books, 1999); Susan A. Phillips, Wallbangin: Graffiti and Gangs in L.A. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Joseph F. Sheley and James D. Wright, In the Line of Fire (New York: Aldine, 1995); and Malcolm W. Klein, The American Street Gang (New York: Oxford, 1995).

  4. Status Offenders. See Randall G. Shelden, Gene Kassebaum, Nancy L. Marker, and Patricia Glancey, et al., Youth on the Run from Families and School: The Problem of Status Offenders in Hawaii (Manoa, HI: Center for Youth Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1997); Gwen A. Holden and Robert A. Kapler, "Deinstitutionalizing status offenders: A record of progress," Juvenile Justice 2,2 (1995): 3-10; and John A. Horvath and Sharon Tracy, "Do Status Offenders Get Worse? Some Clarifications on the Question of Escalation," Crime & Delinquency 35 (April 1989): 202-216.

  5. Disparities in Juvenile Processing. Both of the reports discussed in the "Critical Thinking" section of this chapter can be downloaded from the Web.








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