Constitutional Rights of Children In Re Gault and Juvenile Justice

Name: Constitutional Rights of Children In Re Gault and Juvenile Justice
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ISBN: 9780700618149

ISBN-10: 0700618147

ISBN-13: 9780700618149

Edition: 2011

Authors: David S. Tanenhaus

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When fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault of Globe, Arizona, allegedly made an obscene phone call to a neighbor, he was arrested by the local police, who failed to inform his parents. After a hearing in which the neighbor didn't even testify, Gault was promptly sentenced to six years in a juvenile "boot camp"-for an offense that would have cost an adult only two months. Even in a nation fed up with juvenile delinquency, that sentence seemed over the top and inspired a spirited defense on Gault's behalf. Led by Norman Dorsen, the ACLU ultimately took Gault's case to the Supreme Court and in 1967 won a landmark decision authored by Justice Abe Fortas. Widely celebrated as the most important…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

David S. Tanenhaus is Professor of History and Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His books include Juvenile Justice in the Making and The Constitutional Rights of Children . He is co-editor, with Franklin Zimring, of the series Youth, Crime, and Justice for NYU Press.