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Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0195097874, 9780195097870, 9781423758839
LCC
HV9104 .F43 1999
Open Library ID
OL348113M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26530091 bytes)
Pages
392\391
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both the Supreme Court decisions to provide delinquents with procedural justice and the more recent political impetus to "get tough" on young offenders. This provocative book will be necessary reading for criminal and juvenile justice scholars, sociologists, legislators, and juvenile justice personnel.

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