Bad Kids
Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 1999
391 pages
978-0-19-802584-9 (ISBN)
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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Barry Feld is Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He is the author of five books and more than three dozen law review and criminology articles on juvenile justice administration with special emphases on serious offenders, procedural justice, and youth sentencing policy.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- ONE: The Social Construction of Childhood and Adolescence
- TWO: The Juvenile Court and the "Rehabilitative Ideal
- THREE: The Constitutional Domestication of the Juvenile Court
- FOUR: Procedural Justice in Juvenile Courts: Law on the Books and Law in Action
- FIVE: Social Control and Noncriminal Status Offenders: Triage and Privatization
- SIX: Delinquent or Criminal? Juvenile Courts' Shrinking Jurisdiction over Serious Young Offenders
- SEVEN: Punishment, Treatment, and the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Delinquents
- EIGHT: Abolish the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Policy When the Child Is a Criminal and the Criminal Is a Child
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
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