Research Catalog

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