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Zusatztext "...creatively thoughtful....this is a very important book....It may well contribute to the development of new relationships between the American polity and its youthful citizens."--Federal Probation Informationen zum Autor Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Changing Legal World of Adolesence (1982) and co-author of many books on law and legal institutions, including Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (1995) and Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (with Gordon Hawkins, Oxford, 1997). Klappentext Zimring offers the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States both as a social phenomenon and a policy problem. His book covers the range of youth violence issues in the 1990s, from crime statistics to demographic projections to new legislation. The result is a thorough debunking of Congressional predictions of "a coming storm of juvenile violence" and the half-baked policy proposals that accompany such warnings. Zusammenfassung Franklin Zimring offers the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States both as a social phenomenon and a policy problem. This book covers the range of youth violence issues in the 1990s, from crime statistics to demographic projections to legislation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Youth Violence in the 1990s 1: The Perception of a Problem Is a Problem 2: American Youth Violence--A Profile 3: A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality? 4: The Case of the Terrifying Toddlers Part II: Legal Policy Toward Youth Violence 5: Some Basic Principles 6: Firearms Policy for the Young 7: "That Malice Which Is to Supply Age": Standards for Transfer to Criminal Court 8: Adolescents Who Kill Part III: Larger Contexts 9: Youth Violence and the Future of the Juvenile Court 10: Youth Violence and Youth Policy References Index ...
