Judging Children As Children - A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System

Klappentext An argument for more judicial discretion in sentencing children Zusammenfassung Makes an argument for a better system of justice that recognizes the mental, emotional, and physical abilities of young people and provides them with an opportunity to be rehabilitated as productive members of society instead of being locked up in prisons. This work proposes a different approach to dealing with youthful offenders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1 The Proposition; 2 The Nature of Adolescence; 3 The Criminal Responsibility of Juveniles; 4 Sentencing Children Tried in Adult Courts; 5 Our Hardest to Love Children; 6 Interactive Justice; 7 Fridays in the Youth Part; 8 The Experiment that Failed; 9 Creation of the Youth Part; 10 The Youth Part Model; 11 A Model Juvenile Justice System; 12 Juvenile Justice Policy Reform

Product details

• Authors: Michael Corriero, Michael A. Corriero
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2006
• EAN: 9781592131686
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-168-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Pädagogik, Politikwissenschaft, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Strafrecht, allgemein