Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice
Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus
Abstract
This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. This book provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What factors should be considered in how youth are punished? What role should the police have in schools? This book foc ... More
This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. This book provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What factors should be considered in how youth are punished? What role should the police have in schools? This book focuses on the most pressing issues of the day: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development and subsequent sentencing, the relationship of schools and the police, the issue of the school-to-prison pipeline, the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the need for national policies—including registration requirements—for juvenile sex offenders.
Keywords:
juvenile courts,
juvenile justice,
juvenile sex offenders,
reforms,
policy changes,
youth crime,
youth punishment,
immigration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781479816873 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 |
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479816873.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Franklin E. Zimring, editor
David S. Tanenhaus, editor
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