Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice / Franklin E. Zimring, David S. Tanenhaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanenhaus, David Spinoza, Editor.

Zimring, Franklin E., Editor.

Series:

Youth, crime, and justice series.

Youth, Crime, and Justice ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--United States.

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What factors should be considered in how youth are punished? What role should the police have in schools? This essential volume, edited by two of the leading scholars on juvenile justice, and with contributors who are among the key experts on each issue, the volume focuses on the most pressing issues of the day: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development and subsequent sentencing, the relationship of schools and the police, the issue of the school-to-prison pipeline, the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the need for national policies—including registration requirements--for juvenile sex offenders. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice is not only a timely collection, based on the most current research, but also a forward-thinking volume that anticipates the needs for substantive and future changes in juvenile justice.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus

1. American Youth Violence

2. The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer in the 1990's

3. Juvenile Sexual Offenders

4. The School-to-Prison Pipeline

5. Education behind Bars?

6. A Tale of Two Systems

7. Juvenile Criminal Record Confidentiality

8. Minority Overrepresentation

9. The Once and Future Juvenile Brain

10. On Strategy and Tactics for Contemporary Reforms

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9781479863402

1479863408

OCLC:

879306259

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access