Offering a highly analytical yet balanced approach, Third Edition, encourages students to think critically about important real-world issues including the effects of inequality, race, class, and gender on juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system. Lively, engaging, and accessible, it is ideal for juvenile delinquency courses in both criminal justice and sociology departments. highlighting issues of race, class, gender, and inequality of theory, history, gender, and international issues on engaging and controversial challenges in the field including critical-thinking questions as captions for photos, "Focus on Ethics" boxes, and Learning Objectives that are keyed to the Summary tables containing an Instructor's Manual, a Computerized Test Bank, and PowerPoint-based lecture slides at www.oup.com/us/fuller that provides additional resources for students