| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages). |
| Series |
Youth, Crime, and Justice |
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Youth, Crime, and Justice.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus -- American youth violence : a cautionary tale / Franklin E. Zimring -- The power politics of juvenile court transfer in the 1990s / Franklin E. Zimring -- Juvenile sexual offenders / Michael F. Caldwell -- The school-to-prison pipeline : rhetoric and reality / Aaron Kupchik -- Education behind bars? : the promise of the Maya Angelou Academy / James Forman Jr. -- A tale of two systems : juvenile justice system choices and their impact on young immigrants / David B. Thronson -- Juvenile criminal record confidentiality / James B. Jacobs -- Minority overrepresentation : on causes and partial cures / Franklin E. Zimring -- The once and future juvenile brain / Terry A. Maroney -- On strategy and tactics for contemporary reforms / Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus. |
| 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. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Criminology.
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Juvenile delinquency -- United States.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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| Added Author |
Tanenhaus, David Spinoza.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zimring, Franklin E. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice New York : NYU Press,c2014 9781479816873 |
| ISBN |
9781479863402 (electronic bk.) |
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1479863408 (electronic bk.) |
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