Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention

Abstract

I Families, Children, and Delinquency.- 1 The Family as Context for Delinquency Prevention: Demographic Trends and Political Realities.- 2 Early Precursors of Frequent Offending.- 3 Biomedical Problems in Juvenile Delinquency: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment.- II Promising Interventions: Family Training.- 4 What Policy Makers and Practitioners Can Learn from Family Studies of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency.- 5 Contingency Management with Oppositional Children: Some Critical Teaching Issues for Parents.- III Promising Interventions: Preschool and School Programs.- 6 Can Preschool Programs Help Prevent Delinquency?.- 7 The Implications of Early Intervention Efforts for the Primary Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency.- 8 Delinquency Prevention Through Parent Training: Results and Issues from Work in Progress.- IV The Family and Public Policy.- 9 Giving the Juvenile Court a Preschool Education.- 10 The Federal Government and the Family.- 11 Delinquency Prevention and Labeling.- 12 Multiproblem Families and the Community.- V Conclusion.- Strategic Opportunities for Delinquency Prevention.