Our children, their children : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice / edited by Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.

In Our Children, Their Children, a prominent team of researchers argues that a second-rate and increasingly punitive juvenile justice system is allowed to persist because most people believe it is designed for children in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups. While public opinion, laws, and social...

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Other Authors: Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946-, Kempf Leonard, Kimberly
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Series:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development.
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Summary:In Our Children, Their Children, a prominent team of researchers argues that a second-rate and increasingly punitive juvenile justice system is allowed to persist because most people believe it is designed for children in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups. While public opinion, laws, and social policies that convey distinctions between "our children" and "their children" may seem to conflict with the American ideal of blind justice, they are hardly at odds with patterns of group differentiation and inequality that have characterized much of American history. Our Childre
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 459 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226319919
0226319911
0226319881
9780226319889
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.