Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes

Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders is an examination of today's serious, chronic, and violent youthful offender. This vital book explores the relationship between youth and serious, violent antisocial behavior in America, examining its antecedents, its onset, and its situational and motivating factors. It illuminates the relationship between substance abuse and delinquency and looks at racial and ethnic disparities in youth crime and violence. Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes goes further in its examination of youths who commit adult-like violence than other books in the field, with chapters on dating violence and family violence, in addition to exploring school and gang violence, substance abuse issues, and more.Visit the author's website at http://www.rbarriflowers.com