American juvenile justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Zimring, Franklin E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5747533 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Childhood and public law before the revolution
- 2. Modern adolescence as a learner's permit
- 3. The problem of individual variation
- 4. The common thread : diversion in juvenile justice
- 5. Penal proportionality for the young offender : notes on immaturity, capacity, and diminished responsibility
- 6. Kids, groups, and crime : some implications of a well-known secret
- 7. Two patterns of age progression in adolescent crime
- 8. The case of the disappearing superpredator : some lessons from the 1990s
- 9. The jurisprudence of teen pregnancy
- 10. Juvenile or criminal court? : a punitive theory of waiver
- 11. Reducing the harms of minority overrepresentation in American juvenile justice
- 12. Choosing a coherent policy toward juveniles and guns
- 13. The hardest of the hard cases : the young homicide offender.
