Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of many books on topics including deterrence, the changing legal world of adolescence, capital punishment, the scale of imprisonment, and drug control. His books include The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (voted a Book of the Year by the Economist), When Police Kill, and The City That Became Safe.

• Introduction Part I Adolescence: Social Facts and Legal Theory one Childhood and Public Law before the Revolution two Modern Adolescence as a Learner's Permit three The Problem of Individual Variation Conclusion to Part I Part II - A Rationale for American Juvenile Justice four The Common Thread: Diversion in Juvenile Justice five Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender: Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility six The Central Mission of Separate Juvenile Courts Part III - The Adolescent Offender seven Kids, Groups and Crime eight Two Patterns of Age Progression nine American Youth Violence-A Cautionary Tale Part IV - Policy Problems in Modern Juvenile Justice ten Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification-How Should Juvenile Courts Respond? eleven Juvenile or Criminal Court? A Punitive Theory of Waiver twelve Reducing the Harms of Minority Overrepresentation in American Juvenile Justice thirteen Choosing a Coherent Policy toward Juveniles and Guns fourteen The Hardest of the Hard Cases: The Young Homicide Offender fifteen Strategy and Tactics in Juvenile Justice Reform Notes and References Index

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