Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law (13th Edition) – eBook

Author(s)

Brandon C. Welsh

Professor Brandon C. Welsh, Ph.D. is the Director of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study and is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University (Canada). His research and teaching focus on the prevention of delinquency and crime, with an emphasis on community, developmental, and situational approaches, and evidence-based social policy. Dr. Welsh is an author or editor of over 10 books, including The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention, Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy, and The Future of Criminology. He was a member of the OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and the NIJ Study Group on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime, and has served as a consultant to the British Home Office, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre, and the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime in Montreal.

Larry J. Siegel

Dr. Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx in 1947. While dwelling on Jerome Avenue and attending City College of New York (CCNY) in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence modern culture had on individual behavior: Did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his curiosity in social forces and human behavior to the research of crime and justice. After graduating from CCNY, he attended the criminal justice program at the State College of New York at Albany, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there.

Professor Siegel started his teaching career at Northeastern University and has also held instructing positions at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, and in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell (UML). Now a Professor Emeritus, he continues to teach courses on criminology and criminal justice in UML'S online master's degree program. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, corrections, criminal justice, and criminal procedure. He's a courtroom-certified expert on police conduct and has testified in numerous legal cases.