Charles H. Shireman was, until his recent retirement, Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Frederic G. Reamer is Mary Tucker Tharp Professor of Social Work, Rhode Island College.

... a noteworthy book... offers important insights and raises a number of vexing and complex problems for which there are no easy solutions. Journal of Social Work Education In addition to its assessment of the deeper issues of substantive justice, this book provides an excellent review of major proposals for juvenile court restructuring, and offers specific directions for reform...[it]manages to achieve its well conceived objectives through an unusually comprehensive, insightful and reasoned analysis. Journal of Criminal Justice

• 1. The Nature of Juvenile Crime 2. The Counterrevolution in Juvenile Justice 3. Tangled Pathways to the Future: Issues of Role and Function 4. The Issues of Effectiveness 5. Rehabilitate the Rehabilitative Ideal? 6. The Dispositional Extremes: Diversion and the Correctional Institution 7. Final Observations: The Pursuit of Juvenile Justice