Part I: What Do We Know About Effective Work to Reduce Delinquency?.

1. Meta-Analyses: An Overview.

2. Elements of Successful Work With Delinquents.

3. The Importance of Treatment Integrity.

Part II: Families and Delinquency:.

4. Family Factors and Delinquent Behaviour.

5. Foster Families and delinquency.

6. Familial Abuse and delinquency.

7. Working With Parents and Children.

Part III: Advances in Working With Delinquents:.

8. The Role of Social Cognition in Delinquency.

9. Moral Maturity and Delinquent Behaviour.

10. Working With Cognition.

11. Linking Advances to What Works.

Concluding Thoughts.

Appendices.