TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zimring,Franklin E.
TI  - American juvenile justice
SN  - 0195181166 (cloth 10-digit isbn)
AV  - HV 9104 .Z575 2005 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Juvenile justice, Administration of
KW  - United States
KW  - Juvenile delinquency
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Juvenile courts
N1  - 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
ER  -