Bad Kids

This book examines what is wrong with the U.S. juvenile court system and proposes an alternative model for youth crime control and child welfare under which states would try all offenders in an integrated criminal justice system with appropriate modifications to accommodate younger offenders. Chapters: (1) "The Social Construction of Childhood and Adolescence" (2) "The Juvenile Court and the 'Rehabilitative Ideal'" (3) "The Constitutional Domestication of the Juvenile Court" (4) "Procedural Justice in Juvenile Courts: Law on the Books and Law in Action" (5) "Social Control and Noncriminal Status Offenders: Triage and Privatization" (6) "Delinquent or Criminal? Juvenile Courts' Shrinking Jurisdiction over Serious Young Offenders" (7) "Punishment, Treatment, and the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Delinquents" (8) "Abolish the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Policy When the Child Is a Criminal and the Criminal Is a Child."

First sentence: The ideas of childhood and adolescence as distinct developmental stages and the belief that young people between about seven and seventeen years of age constitute a separate category with special needs represent relatively recent historical phenomena.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

5

Pages

392

ISBN

9780195097887

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