American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195181166 (cloth 10-digit isbn)
  • 0195181174 (paper 10-digit isbn)
  • 9780195181166
  • 9780195181173
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV 9104 .Z575 2005
Contents:
Childhood and public law before the Revolution -- Modern adolescence as a learner's permit -- The problem of individual variation -- The common thread : diversion in juvenile justice -- Penal proportionality for the young offender : notes on immaturity, capacity, and diminished responsibility -- Kids, groups, and crime : some implications of a well-known secret -- Two patterns of age progression in adolescent crime -- The case of the disappearing superpredator : some lessons from the 1990s -- The jurisprudence of teen pregnancy -- Juvenile or criminal court? : a punitive theory of waiver -- Reducing the harms of minority overrepresentation in American juvenile justice -- Choosing a coherent policy toward juveniles and guns -- The hardest of the hard cases : the young homicide offender.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

Childhood and public law before the Revolution -- Modern adolescence as a learner's permit -- The problem of individual variation -- The common thread : diversion in juvenile justice -- Penal proportionality for the young offender : notes on immaturity, capacity, and diminished responsibility -- Kids, groups, and crime : some implications of a well-known secret -- Two patterns of age progression in adolescent crime -- The case of the disappearing superpredator : some lessons from the 1990s -- The jurisprudence of teen pregnancy -- Juvenile or criminal court? : a punitive theory of waiver -- Reducing the harms of minority overrepresentation in American juvenile justice -- Choosing a coherent policy toward juveniles and guns -- The hardest of the hard cases : the young homicide offender.

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