American juvenile justice

American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring.

Focusing on the priniples & policy of a separate & distinct system of juvenile justice, this text explores the criminology & policy analysis of adolescence.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimring, Franklin E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Juvenile delinquency > Government policy > United States.
Juvenile courts > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Juvenile courts
Juvenile delinquency > Government policy
Juvenile justice, Administration of
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Childhood and public law before the Revolution
  • Modern adolescence as a learner's permit
  • The problem of individual variation
  • The common thread : diversion in juvenile justice
  • Penal proportionality for the young offender : notes on immaturity, capacity, and diminished responsibility
  • Kids, groups, and crime : some implications of a well-known secret
  • Two patterns of age progression in adolescent crime
  • The case of the disappearing superpredator : some lessons from the 1990s
  • The jurisprudence of teen pregnancy
  • Juvenile or criminal court? : a punitive theory of waiver
  • Reducing the harms of minority overrepresentation in American juvenile justice
  • Choosing a coherent policy toward juveniles and guns
  • The hardest of the hard cases : the young homicide offender.

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