Zimring, Franklin E. <br/><br/>
American juvenile justice / 
Franklin E. Zimring. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2005. 
 - xii, 246 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195181166 (cloth 10-digit isbn) 0195181174 (paper 10-digit isbn) 9780195181166 9780195181173 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005001816 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA554144  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013239715  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.<br/>Juvenile delinquency--Government policy--United States.<br/>Juvenile courts--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV 9104 .Z575 2005