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This book provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking introduction to the juvenile justice system in the United States. It traces the historical origins of the legal concept of juvenile delinquency and the institutional responses that developed, analyses the problem of delinquency, including its patterns, correlates, and causes and offers an in-depth discussion of the efforts to respond to delinquency through both informal and formal mechanisms of juvenile justice.