Judging Juveniles Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts

Name: Judging Juveniles Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts
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ISBN: 9780814747742

ISBN-10: 0814747744

ISBN-13: 9780814747742

Edition: 2006

Authors: Aaron Kupchik

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An extremely well written book that will make an important and unique contribution. -Richard E. Redding, co-editor of Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention An important book that will make a valuable contribution. Policy makers and students of the criminal justice system would be most wise to consider this book if they wish to understand what it really means to prosecute juveniles as if they were adults. -Simon Singer, author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform This book asks basic questions-what difference does the label we put on the court make in an institution's treatment of young offenders? What sorts of cases…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 211
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Aaron Kupchikis associate professor in the department of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of i Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts (NYU Press), winner of the 2007 American Society of Ciminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Growing Up Quickly



Law and Context



The Process of Prosecuting Adolescents: How Formal?



Judging Adolescents: What Matters?



Punishment for Adolescents: What Do They Get, and Why?



Children in an Adult World



Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Lessons for Policy



Research Methods


Notes


Index


About the Author