Table of Contents

From the contents: Abandonment.- Abnormality.- Abortion Counseling.- Abortion Rights.- Abstention.- Abstinence.- Abstinence Education.- Academic Achievement: Contextual Influences.- Academic Self-efficacy.- Acculturation.- Achievement Motivation.- Achievement Tests.- Acting Out.- Activism.- Acute Brain.- Disorders.- Adaptation.- Addiction.- Adjudicative Competence.- Adjustment.- Adjustment Disorder.- Adolescent Crisis.- Adolescent Turmoil.- Adoption.- Adoption and Safe Families Act.- Adrenarche.- Advertising: Do Not Buy That.- Affirmation.- Affirmative Action.- Affluent Youth.- African American children in kinship care.- Age of Consent, Majority, and License.- Agency.- Aggression.- Agreeableness.- Aid to Families with Dependent Children.- Alcohol Use.- Alcohol Use Disorders.- Alcoholics Anonymous.- Alternative Schools.- Altruism.- Amicus Brief.- Amusement Sites and Adolescents’ Rights.- Anger.- Animal Cruelty by Juveniles.- Antisocial Personality Disorder.- Anxi

ety Disorders.- Anxiety Sensitivity.- Appeal.- Apprenticeships.- Arranged Marriage.- Art Therapy.- Asperger Syndrome.- Assault.- Assimilation.- Assimilative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.- Assortative Mating.- Athletic Programs and Title IX.- Attachment During Adolescence.- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).- Authenticity in Relationships.- Autism.- Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Auto Theft.- Autonomy and Its Assessment.- Babysitting.- Bail.- Bariatric Surgery.- Battered Child Syndrome.- Belief in a Just World.- Bereavement.- Best Friends.- Best Interests of the Child.- Betrayal.- Bicultural Stress.- Caffeine Intoxication.- Caffeine Use.- Callous-Unemotional Traits.- Cancer.- Cerebellum.- Cerebral Cortex.- Cerebrum.- Cheating.- Cheerleading.- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.- Dance.- Dangerousness.- Date Rape.- Dating Abuse: Prevalence, Consequences, and Predictors.- Dating Abuse: Primary Prevention Efforts.- Deafness.- Deception.- Decriminalization.- Defense Mechanisms.- Delay of Gratification.- Delinquency.- Delinquency Trajectories.- Delinquent Youth with Disabilities.- Delirium.- Eating Disorders.- Ecstasy Use.- Educational Aspirations.- Effortful Control.- Ego Identity.- Egocentrism.- Emancipation.- Emergency Contraception.- Emerging Adulthood.- Emotion Regulation.- Emotional Abuse.- Emotional Intelligence.- Fair Labor Standards Act.- Faith.- Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act.- Family Development Theory.- Family Group Decision Making.- Family Immunity Doctrine.- Family Meals.- Family Policy.- Family Poverty, Stress, and Coping.- Family Resiliency.- Family Risk and Needs Assessment.- Family Systems Theory.- Family-Based Prevention Programs.- Family-Based Therapy.- Fanaticism.- Fantasy.- Fast Foods.- Fatherhood.- Fathers’ Rights Outside of Marriage.- Fear of Crime.- Gambling.- Gangs.- Gateway Drug Use.- Gay-Straight Alliances.- Gender Coding.- Gender.- Complementation.- Gender Dysphoria.- Gender Identification.- Gender Identity.- Gender Identity Disorder.- Gender Intensification.- Gender Role and Identity.- Gender Role Conflict: Boyhood in Distress.- Gendered Juvenile Justice.- General Strain Theory.- Generativity.- Genetic Influences and Criminal Careers.- Giftedness: The Asset-Vulnerability Paradox.- Habeas Corpus.- Hallucinations.- Hallucinogens.- Happiness.- Harm Reduction.- Hate Crimes.- Hateful Expression Rights.- Hazing.- Health Beliefs.- Health Literacy.- Help-Negation.- Help-Seeking.- Heritability.- Heterosocial Competence.- Identity Distress.- Identity Formation.- Identity Processes.- Identity Status.- Idols and Idolization.- Immigrants’ Linguistic Adaptation.- Immigration.- Impostor Phenomenon.- Impulsivity.- In Loco Parentis.- Incarcerated Parents.- Incarcerated Youth.- Indian Child Welfare Act.- Individualized Education Programs.- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.- Infatuation.- Information Management.- Informational Rights.- Informed Consent and Assent.- Jealousy.- Jury Trial Rightsin Juvenile Court.- Juvenile Court Processes.- Juvenile Court Rationales and Models.- Juvenile Court Transfers.- Juvenile Death Penalty.- Juvenile Drug Courts.- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.- Juvenile Probation.- Juvenile Risk Assessment.- Juvenile Sex Offenders.- Lesbian and Gay Parenting.- Life Course Theory.- Life Events.- Life Goals: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Pursuits.- Life Satisfaction.- Life Sentences.-Life-Story Work.- Loneliness.- Loners.- Longitudinal Designs.- Lying.-Magical Thinking.- Mainstreaming.- Malingering.- Malls.- Marijuana Use.- Marital Distress and Conflict.- Marital Rights.- Marriage.- Masculinity.- Masturbation.- Mattering.- Maturation.- Mature Minor Doctrine.- Maturity of Judgment.- Meaning in Life.- Neocortex.- Neuroimaging and Electroencephalography.- Neurons and Neurotransmitters.- Neuroticism.- Nightmares.- No Child Left Behind Act.- Nomothetic and Ideographic.- Non-suicidal Self-injury.- Nonparental Adults.- Nontraditional Families in Law.- Normality.- Obesity and Overweight.- Objectification Theory.- Obscene and Indecent Expressions.- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.- Occipital Lobe.- PTSD in Young Soldiers from Violent Impoverished Communities.- Pubertal Timing.- Puberty.- Puberty Rites.- Public Policy.- Purpose.- Pygmalion Effect.- Qualitative Methods.- Quality of Life.- Quantitative Methods.- Race and Juvenile Justice Decision Making.- Racial and Ethnic Discrimination.- Racial Pride.- Racism.- Rape.- Rape Trauma Syndrome.- Reactive Attachment Disorder.- Reasoning.- Rebelliousness.- Recidivism.- Refugees.- Reintegrative Shaming Theory.- Rejection Sensitivity.- Relationship Networks.- Reliability.- Religiosity in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood.- Religious Expression Rights.- Reputations.- Residency Requirements.- Residential Treatment.- Resilience.- Resistance and Conformity.- Sadistic Personality Disorder.- Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.- Safe Space.- Scapegoating.- Schema.- Schizophrenia.- Schizotypy.- School Belonging.- School Climate.- School Connectedness.- Taxonomies of Delinquents.- Teen Courts.- Temperament.- Temporal Lobe.- Terrorism.- Testimonial Competency.- Thematic Apperception Test.- Theory of Mind.- Therapeutic Foster Care.- Underachievement.- Underachievers.- Underclass.- Unfit Parents.- Validity.- Vegetarianism.- Video Games.- Virginity Loss.- Vocational Education.- Vouchers.- Vulnerability.- Weapons Carrying.- Wellness.- Wet Dream.- White Matter.- Wilderness Therapy.- Wisdom.- Work and Antisocial Behavior.- Working Memory.- Wraparound Interventions.- Youth Research Traditions.- Zero Tolerance Policies.

About the Author

Roger J.R. Levesque, J.D. (Columbia Law School), Ph.D. (Psychology, the University of Chicago), is professor of criminal justice at Indiana University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Prior to his current faculty position, he was Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Arizona. Professor Levesque's research focuses on the legal regulation of families and the nature of children/adolescents' rights. In addition to having published numerous journal articles, Levesque is the author of eight books (and the editor of one) dealing mainly with the nature family and the laws that shape our intimate lives. His most recent text, Adolescents, Media and the Law was published by Oxford University Press in 2007. One of his other texts dealing with intersections between human development and the law, Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Law and Adolescence (New York University Press), won the Society for the Study of Adolescence 2004 best authored book award. He also is the author of the first (and still only) law case book, Child Maltreatment Law (Carolina Academic Press), which presents legal materials and related social science information to help readers understand the breadth and depth of legal responses to child maltreatment.