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Title
  • Bad kids : race and the transformation of the juvenile court / Barry C. Feld.
Author
Feld, Barry C.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Description
xv, 374 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Should juvenile courts be instruments for rehabilitation or strong punishment? Feld argues that today's juvenile courts an out-moded institution that unfairly punishes youth, particularly minority youth.
Series Statement
  • Studies in crime and public policy
Uniform Title
Studies in crime and public policy
Subject
  • Discrimination in juvenile justice administration > United States
  • Juvenile courts > United States
  • Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Social Construction of Childhood and Adolescence -- The Juvenile Court and the "Rehabilitative Ideal" -- The Constitutional Domestication of the Juvenile Court -- Procedural Justice in Juvenile Courts: Law on the Books and Law in Action -- Social Control and Noncriminal Status Offenders: Triage and Privatization -- Delinquent or Criminal? Juvenile Court's Shrinking Jurisdiction over Serious Young Offenders -- Punishment, Treatment, and the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Delinquents -- Abolish the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Policy When the Child Is a Criminal and the Criminal Is a Child.
ISBN
  • 0195097874 (alk. paper)
  • 0195097882 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98007271^
OCLC
39045019
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library