| TITLE: |
American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring. |
| AUTHOR: |
Zimring, Franklin E. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index. |
| NOTES: |
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. |
| ELEC. ACCESS: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005001816.html
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| SUBJECT: |
Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States. |
| SUBJECT: |
Juvenile delinquency--Government policy--United States. |
| SUBJECT: |
Juvenile courts--United States. |
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