Recriminalizing Delinquency

Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Av Simon I. Singer, Buffalo) Singer, Simon I. (State University of New York, Alfred Blumstein, David P. Farrington

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Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from juvenile court to criminal court. It focuses on the creation, implementation, and effects of waiver legislation that lowered the eligible age of criminal responsibility to thirteen for murder and fourteen for other violent offenses. In the end, recriminalization is seen as an effort to return a part of the juvenile justice system to the conditions that existed prior to the creation of juvenile courts.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-11-13
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt378 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Criminology
Antal sidor248
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521629201

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Recriminalizing violent juvenile crime; 2. Taking stock of juvenile justice reforms; 3. Recriminalization on the move and its legal rules; 4. Contextual and legal reasons for identifying juveniles as criminal offenders; 5. The case processing of juvenile offenders: from arrest to disposition; 6. Recriminalization and organizing for deterrence; 7. Convicted juvenile offenders in a maximum security institution; 8. Concluding 'real' reasons for recriminalizing delinquency; Appendices; Notes.

"Written as a case study in juvenile justice reform, Recriminalizing Delinquency provides a detailed and insightful account of a controversial legislative enactment, its background, content, intent, and impact....through this ambitious design, Singer has clearly set an agenda for subsequent research that should provide an opportunity for new and important insights to be obtained about the juvenile justice reform process." Troy L. Armstrong, American Journal of Sociology