American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimring, Franklin E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Juvenile delinquency--Government policy--United States.

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile courts--United States.

Juvenile courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of adolescence, presenting a justification for the category of the juvenile or a period of partial responsibility before full adulthood. Subsequent sections include empirical investigations of the nature of youth criminality and legal policy toward youth crime. At the heart of the book is an argument for a penal policy that recognizes

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I: Adolescence: Social Facts and Legal Theory; one: Childhood and Public Law before the Revolution; two: Modern Adolescence as a Learner's Permit; three: The Problem of Individual Variation; Conclusion to Part I; Part II: A Rationale for American Juvenile Justice; four: The Common Thread: Diversion in Juvenile Justice; five: Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender: Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility; Part III: The Adolescent Offender; six: Kids, Groups, and Crime: Some Implications of a Well-Known Secret

seven: Two Patterns of Age Progression in Adolescent Crime eight: The Case of the Disappearing Super predator: Some Lessons from the 1990's; Part IV: Policy Problems in Modern Juvenile Justice; nine: The Jurisprudence of Teen Pregnancy; ten: Juvenile or Criminal Court? A Punitive Theory of Waiver; eleven: Reducing the Harms of Minority Overrepresentation in American Juvenile Justice; twelve: Choosing a Coherent Policy toward Juveniles and Guns; thirteen: The Hardest of the Hard Cases: The Young Homicide Offender; Notes and References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-020772-8

0-19-518117-4

1-280-42849-X

0-19-972536-5

1-60256-552-X

OCLC:

821687199