Martin Herbert, is Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal and Devon Exeter Health Care Trust and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction. 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.

"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96