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Scientific criminology and democratic jurisprudence should already be operating on the basis of the ideas and data put forth so meticulously in this work. It is an important refutation of right-wing academics and politicians. Its contents deserve to be presented in every course offered on juvenile delinquency and justice policy in the nation. Zimring is as eloquent and cogent a legal scholar as he is a skilled empiricist. --The Law and Politics Book Review A balanced, empirical analysis of youth violence which shows that it is a complex issue deserving complex thought. --Jodi Lane, Center for Studies in Criminology & Law, University of Florida This thorough, well-documented analysis is important reading for policymakers and the public, and an excellent selection for all academic and public libraries. --Library Journal.. .creatively thoughtful....this is a very important book....It may well contribute to the development of new relationships between the American polity a

Scientific criminology and democratic jurisprudence should already be operating on the basis of the ideas and data put forth so meticulously in this work. It is an important refutation of right-wing academics and politicians. Its contents deserve to be presented in every course offered on juvenile delinquency and justice policy in the nation. Zimring is as eloquent and cogent a legal scholar as he is a skilled empiricist. --The Law and Politics Book Review<br> A balanced, empirical analysis of youth violence which shows that it is a complex issue deserving complex thought. --Jodi Lane, Center for Studies in Criminology & Law, University of Florida<br> This thorough, well-documented analysis is important reading for policymakers and the public, and an excellent selection for all academic and public libraries. --Library Journal<br> .,. creatively thoughtful....this is a very important book....It may well contribute to the development of new relationships between the American polity and its youthful citizens. --Federal Probation<br>

Zimring's book offers a clear and concise analysis of the problem of contemporary youth crime that both debunks myths and points a way forward for future research. Keith Hayward, University of East London Scientific criminology and democratic jurisprudence should already be operating on the basis of the ideas and data put forth so meticulously in this work. It is an important refutation of right-wing academics and politicians. Its contents deserve to be presented in every course offered on juvenile delinquency and justice policy in the nation. Zimring is as eloquent and cogent a legal scholar as he is a skilled empiricist. -The Law and Politics Book Review A balanced, empirical analysis of youth violence which shows that it is a complex issue deserving complex thought. -Jodi Lane, Center for Studies in Criminology & Law, University of Florida This thorough, well-documented analysis is important reading for policymakers and the public, and an excellent selection for all academic and public libraries. -Library Journal ...creatively thoughtful...this is a very important book...It may well contribute to the development of new relationships between the American polity and its youthful citizens. -Federal Probation

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Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Changing Legal World of Adolesence (1982) and co-author of many books on law and legal institutions, including Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (1995) and Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (with Gordon Hawkins, Oxford, 1997).

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