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American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of adolescence, presenting a justification for the category of the juvenile or a period of partial responsibility before full adulthood. Subsequent sections include empirical investigations of the nature of youth criminality and legal policy toward youth crime. At the heart of the book is an argument for a penal policy that recognizes diminished responsibility and a youth policy that emphasizes the benefits of letting the maturing process continue with minimal interruption. In this updated and expanded second edition, Zimring has included four new chapters with examinations on important topics including, US Supreme Court decisions of life sentences for minors, the elected use of juvenile courts over criminal court, punitive sex offender registration for juveniles, and appropriate tactics for juvenile justice reform.

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Author:   Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9780195181173

ISBN 10:   0195181174
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 November 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Adolescence: Social Facts and Legal Theory 1: Childhood and Public Law Before the Revolution 2: Modern Adolescence as a Learner's Permit 3: The Problem of Individual Variation II. A Rationale for American Juvenile Justice 4: The Common Thread--Diversion in Juvenile Justice 5: Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender III. The Adolescent Offender 6: Kids, Groups, and Crime: Some Implications of a Well-Known Secret 7: Two Patterns of Age Progression in Adolescent Crime 8: The Case of the Disappearing Super-Predator: Some III. Lessons from the 1990s IV. Policy Problems in Modern Juvenile Justice 9: The Jurisprudence of Teen Pregnancy 10: Juvenile or Criminal Court? A Punitive Theory of Waiver 11: Reducing the Harms of Minority Over-representation in American Juvenile Justice 12: Choosing a Coherent Policy Toward Juveniles and Guns 13: The Hardest of the Hard Cases--The Young Homicide Offender

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Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of many books on topics including deterrence, the changing legal world of adolescence, capital punishment, the scale of imprisonment, and drug control. His books include The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (voted a Book of the Year by the Economist), When Police Kill, and The City That Became Safe.

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