An American travesty : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending

An American travesty : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending / Franklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen.

An American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimring, Franklin E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Series:Adolescent development and legal policy.
Subjects:
Teenage sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Sex crimes > United States.
Juvenile courts > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
Juvenile courts
Sex crimes
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Three case studies
  • Continuity and change in American sex-crime policy
  • The juvenile sex-offender
  • The emergence of juvenile sex offender treatment
  • The sex offender in juvenile court
  • Reform in juvenile court
  • Registration, community notification, and juvenile sex offenders.

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