| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Focusing on the priniples & policy of a separate & distinct system of juvenile justice, this text explores the criminology & policy analysis of adolescence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States
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Juvenile delinquency -- Government policy -- United States
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Juvenile courts -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Juvenile courts
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Juvenile delinquency -- Government policy
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Juvenile justice, Administration of
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199725366 |
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0199725365 |
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1423734947 |
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9781423734949 |
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9780195181166 |
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0195181166 |
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9780195181173 |
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0195181174 |
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