Rethinking Juvenile Justice : : Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery / / Elizabeth S. Scott, Laurence D Steinberg.

What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional developm...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Challenge of Lionel Tate
  • CHAPTER 2 The Science of Adolescent Development and Teenagers' Involvement in Crime
  • CHAPTER 3 Regulating Children in American Law: The State as Parent and Protector
  • CHAPTER 4 Why Crime Is Different
  • CHAPTER 5 Immaturity and Mitigation
  • CHAPTER 6 Developmental Competence and the Adjudication of Juveniles
  • CHAPTER 7 Social Welfare and Juvenile Crime Regulation
  • CHAPTER 8 The Developmental Model and Juvenile Justice Policy for the Twenty-First Century
  • CHAPTER 9 Is Society Ready for Juvenile Justice Reform?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index