Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice / / ed. by David S. Tanenhaus, Franklin E. Zimring.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Caldwell, Michael F.,; Forman Jr., James,; Jacobs, James B.,; Kupchik, Aaron,; Maroney, Terry A.,; Thronson, David B.,; Zimring, Franklin E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Tanenhaus, David S.,; Zimring, Franklin E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Youth, Crime, and Justice ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 22 black and white illustrations

Thisis a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform thejuvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash inmaking dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justiceprovides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestionsfor reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adultswhen they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What factorsshould be considered in how youth are punished?What role should the police have in schools?This essential volume, edited by two of the leadingscholars on juvenile justice, and with contributors who are among the keyexperts on each issue, the volume focuses on the most pressing issues of theday: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development andsubsequent sentencing, the relationship of schools and the police, the issue ofthe school-to-prison pipeline, the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the need for nationalpolicies-including registration requirements--for juvenile sex offenders. Choosingthe Future for American Juvenile Justice is not only a timely collection, basedon the most current research, but also a forward-thinking volume thatanticipates the needs for substantive and future changes in juvenile justice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus -- Part I. The Legacy of the 1990s -- 1. American Youth Violence -- 2. The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer in the 1990s -- Part II. New Borderlands for Juvenile Justice -- 3. Juvenile Sexual Offenders -- 4. The School-to-Prison Pipeline -- 5. Education behind Bars? -- 6. A Tale of Two Systems -- 7. Juvenile Criminal Record Confidentiality -- 8. Minority Overrepresentation -- Part III. Making Change Happen -- 9. The Once and Future Juvenile Brain -- 10. On Strategy and Tactics for Contemporary Reforms -- About the Contributors -- Index