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Who is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and exceptional cases, he reveals that probation officers must commonly contrive informal measures to circumvent a system which routinely obstructs the delivery of services to their clients. Jacobs defines the concept of the "no-fault society" to describe the larger context of societal disorder and interpersonal manipulation that the juvenile justice system at once reflects and exacerbates.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Screwing the System and Making it Work
• Subtitle: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society
• Author: Mark D. Jacobs
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780226389813
• ISBN: 0226389812
• ID: 04546104
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 23 × 16 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 1993

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