Diversion and Informal Social Control / / ed. by Günter Albrecht, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Günter,; Backes, Otto,; Barton, Stephan,; Bettmer, Franz,; Braithwaite, John,; Cornish, Derek,; Ezell, Mark,; Frehsee, Detlev,; Heinz, Wolfgang,; Horwitz, Allan V.,; Korfes, Gunhild,; Lissenberg, Elisabeth,; Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang,; Messmer, Heinz,; Micheel, Heinz-Günter,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Plewig, Hans-Joachim,; Ransiek, Andreas,; Reiss, Albert J.,; Rössner, Dieter,; Schwartz, Ira M.,; Steinert, Heinz,; Voss, Michael,; Walgrave, Lode,; Weitekamp, Elmar,
• HerausgeberIn: Albrecht, Günter,; Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter : Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt der Universität Bielefeld ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Introduction to Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- The Idea of Prevention and the Critique of Instrumental Reason -- Diversion in the Juvenile Justice System and a Sociological Theory of Social Control -- Diversion and Social Control: Alternative Measures of Crime Control -- Diversionary Tactics: A Rational Choice Approach -- Part II: Diversion and the Juvenile Justice System -- Introduction to Part II: Diversion and the Juvenile Justice System -- The Impact and Role of Juvenile Diversion in the United States -- Sentence Without Conviction. Notes on Diversion from the Juvenile Court in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Radical Social Change and Diversion: Problems With Diversion-Oriented Crime Policy in the Critical Transformation of Social Structures and Changes in the Living Conditions of Adolescents -- Part III: Alternative Sanctions: Theoretical Ideas and Empirical Results -- Introduction to Part III: Alternative Sanctions: Theoretical Ideas and Empirical Results -- Diversion, Reintegrative Shaming and Republican Criminology -- Diversion in German Juvenile Justice: Its Practice, Impact, and Penal Policy Implications -- Diversion in Juvenile Justice: Theoretical Expectations and Preliminary Results of a Treatment Outcome Evaluation of Juvenile Offenders -- Part IV: Diversion, Social Work, and Restitution -- Introduction to Part IV: Diversion, Social Work, and Restitution -- Diversion? It Depends on What We Divert to: Some Comments on Diversion and the Restorative Alternatives -- Concentration on the Wrong Offender Groups: An Assessment of Current Mediation and Restitution Programs -- Measurements of Net-Widening -- Alternative Social Work: Informalization of Social Control in the Field of Juvenile Delinquency - An Empirical Study -- Informal Justice and Communication: The Case of Diversion and Victim-Offender Mediation -- Diversion and Extrajudicial Programs: Preventive Claims and the Decision-making Process -- A Discrete Outcome-Model to Measure Net-Widening Effects -- Evaluation of Diversion Program Concepts -- Fantasy and the Embodied Moral Capital: Children's Moral Judgments of Crime and Criminals -- Part V: Legal Aspects of Diversion -- Introduction to Part V: Legal Aspects of Diversion -- Diversion and Constitutional Crime Policy -- Efficiency Interests and the "Rule of Law" in Informal Proceedings -- The Incompatibility of Treatment and Punishment -- Forms of De Facto Decriminalization: Diversion and Defense -- Juvenile-Specific Forms of Decriminalization -- Self-incrimination Privilege and Police Interrogation: A Comparative View -- Subject Index -- Author Index