Choosing the future for American juvenile justice / edited by Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus.

This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice pr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Tanenhaus, David Spinoza (Editor), Zimring, Franklin E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Series:Youth, crime, and justice series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus
  • American youth violence : a cautionary tale / Franklin E. Zimring
  • The power politics of juvenile court transfer in the 1990s / Franklin E. Zimring
  • Juvenile sexual offenders / Michael F. Caldwell
  • The school-to-prison pipeline : rhetoric and reality / Aaron Kupchik
  • Education behind bars? : the promise of the Maya Angelou Academy / James Forman Jr.
  • A tale of two systems : juvenile justice system choices and their impact on young immigrants / David B. Thronson
  • Juvenile criminal record confidentiality / James B. Jacobs
  • Minority overrepresentation : on causes and partial cures / Franklin E. Zimring
  • The once and future juvenile brain / Terry A. Maroney
  • On strategy and tactics for contemporary reforms / Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus.