From boot camps to truancy, the Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice provides more than 200 up-to-date, concise, and readable entries in a single, authoritative volume. The editors, noted authors of several criminal justice books and editors of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Prisons (Garland, 1997), cover historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States. The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as: - alcohol and drug abuse, - arson, - the death penalty for juveniles, - computer - Internet crime - gun violence, - gangs - missing children - school violence - teen pregnancy, - delinquency theories. In addition, topics cover society's response to the terrible problem of juvenile justice, punishments meted out to America's juvenile offenders, juvenile rehabilitation programs, and well-known individuals in the field.