Bad Kids - Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court

Zusatztext Barry Feld's stand on reforming juvenile justice will surely be controversial! but his reasoning is clear! and his position is well argued. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An examination of the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court since the 1970s. The book explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both Supreme Court decisions and a political impetus to "get tough" on young offenders.

Product details

• Authors: Barry C. Feld, Barry C. (Centennial Professor of Law Feld, Feld Barry C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1999
• EAN: 9780195097870
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509787-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Po; Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Courts, LAW / Trial Practice, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Crime and criminology, Juvenile offenders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Rehabilitation of offenders