Bad kids : race and the transformation of the juvenile court /

Bad kids : race and the transformation of the juvenile court / Barry C. Feld.

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Should juvenile courts be instruments for rehabilitation or strong punishment? Feld argues that today's juvenile courts an out-moded institution that unfairly punishes youth, particularly minority youth.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Feld, Barry C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Juvenile courts > United States.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration > United States.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration.
Juvenile courts.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The Social Construction of Childhood and Adolescence
  • The Juvenile Court and the "Rehabilitative Ideal"
  • The Constitutional Domestication of the Juvenile Court
  • Procedural Justice in Juvenile Courts: Law on the Books and Law in Action
  • Social Control and Noncriminal Status Offenders: Triage and Privatization
  • Delinquent or Criminal? Juvenile Court's Shrinking Jurisdiction over Serious Young Offenders
  • Punishment, Treatment, and the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Delinquents
  • Abolish the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Policy When the Child Is a Criminal and the Criminal Is a Child.

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