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

This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice pr...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Youth, crime, and justice series.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus
  • 1. American Youth Violence
  • 2. The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer in the 1990's
  • 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
  • 9. The Once and Future Juvenile Brain
  • 10. On Strategy and Tactics for Contemporary Reforms
  • About the Contributors
  • Index