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An American travesty : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending / Franklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimring, Franklin E.
- Series:
- Adolescent development and legal policy.
- Adolescent development and legal policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage sex offenders--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Teenage sex offenders.
- Sex crimes--United States.
- Sex crimes.
- Juvenile courts--United States.
- Juvenile courts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult. "An opinionated, articulate, and forceful
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612505850
- 9781282505858
- 1282505858
- 9780226983592
- 0226983595
- OCLC:
- 593295581
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