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Book SynopsisBy comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal courts, this work finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit with out cultural understandings of youthfulness. It suggests that justice would be better served if adolescents were handled by the system designed to address their special needs.
Trade ReviewIn this important, clearly written and well-researched book, he argues that treating juveniles as adults conflicts with cultural ideas about youthfulness, resulting in an ambivalent and contradictory response by the court. -- Jamie J. Fader,University of Pennsylvania
An extremely well written book that will make an important and unique contribution. -- Richard E. Redding,co-editor of Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention
An important book that will make a valuable contribution. Policy makers and students of the criminal justice system would be most wise to consider this book if they wish to understand what it really means to prosecute juveniles as if they were adults. -- Simon Singer,author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform
This book asks basic questionswhat difference does the label we put on the court make in an institution's treatment of young offenders? What sorts of cases and what sorts of kids are transferred from juvenile to criminal court systems? What effects on youth are associated with different types of court? Close observation of two radically different institutional responses to youth crime breaks new ground in this empirical study of legal policy toward young offenders. -- Franklin E. Zimring,author of American Juvenile Justice
An excellent book for those exploring the juvenile justice system, and an easy read for the general public. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Growing Up Quickly 2 Law and Context 3 The Process of Prosecuting Adolescents: How Formal? 4 Judging Adolescents: What Matters? 5 Punishment for Adolescents: What Do They Get, and Why?6 Children in an Adult World 7 Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Lessons for Policy Appendix: Research Methods Notes Index About the Author
