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Author: Elizabeth S. Scott ,
Laurence Steinberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.445kg
ISBN: 9780674057463
ISBN 10: 0674057465
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 September 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This multidisciplinary book is exactly what policy makers should consult when thinking about ways to change a system that is in dire need of repair. -- D. S. Mann Choice 20090501 What distinguishes this book from other writings in the field are not the proposals made, which are relatively modest, but rather the developmental sophistication with which they are defended. And in the end, the hard questions the book raises are not about juvenile justice policy, but rather about the interrelationship between law and science. Offering us the gold standard in legal-developmental collaboration, it presses us to consider the role the developmental sciences should play in shaping the law affecting children...What makes the book so valuable is that it can be relied upon by judges, legislatures, lawyers, and policymakers to enhance the sophistication with which they consider the very issues that they are currently being called on to decide. In this sense, Rethinking Juvenile Justice is a complete success. Lawmakers already look to Scott and Steinberg's earlier work when they address how the law should respond to juvenile crime, and this book should only enhance the sophistication of those lawmaking efforts...Rethinking Juvenile Justice promises to enhance the sophistication of those addressing juvenile justice policy on a broad range of issues. -- Emily Buss University of Chicago Law Review 20091201 [Scott and Steinberg] believe that new juvenile justice reforms that publicize available scientific developmental data and empirical data demonstrating savings in recidivism and costs due to keeping kids in the juvenile system will be successful. They believe that we can avoid the demolition of the courts or at least staunch the loss of so many young offenders from the courts' jurisdiction...This book is one of the very few works that provides legal and developmental analyses and offers politically savvy advice about implementing a successful legislative strategy...This is a book that everyone should read. -- Lucy S. McGough Law and Politics Book Review 20090101
Author Information
Elizabeth S. Scott is Harold R. Medina Professor of Law at Columbia University. Laurence Steinberg is Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University.
