Justice for kids : keeping kids out of the juvenile justice system /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 314 pages)
Language:English
Series:Families, law, and society series
Families, law, and society series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279062
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Other authors / contributors:Dowd, Nancy E., 1949-
ISBN:9780814721384
0814721389
9780814721377
0814721370
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and/or transferring into the adult criminal justice system. Justice for Kids is a volume of work by leading academics and activists that focuses on ways to intervene at the earliest possible point to rehabilitate and redirectoto keep kids out of the systemorather than to punish and drive kids deeper. Justice for Kids presents a c.
Other form:Print version: Justice for kids. New York : New York University, ©2011 9780814721377