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

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 Justiceprovid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Youth, Crime, and Justice ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 22 black and white illustrations
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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