...This chapter proposes a new footprint for the juvenile justice system that goes beyond the boundaries of the current system of arrest, detention, juvenile court, probation, and corrections. It describes the components of this juvenile justice system: prevention/early childhood, prevention/early...

...This chapter examines the role of parents in the interviewing of juveniles by the police, the issues arising from such interrogation, and the implications of such issues for prevention of juvenile delinquency. It presents the case of a fifteen-year-old boy and the various questions it raises...

...While filmmakers and social scientists framed juvenile delinquency through race and social environment, Chapter Three shows how public schools also cultivated juvenile delinquency as a religious category through a surprising source: the biblical commandment to love your neighbor as yourself...

... Week PRS discrimination housing juvenile delinquency open enrollment program Black New Yorkers Freedom Day School Boycott New York City improvisation inclusivity panoramic pedagogy Black students New Testament Bible Africa Bush Olatunji Amy Countee Cullen Library Harlem Gandhi Indira...

...Girls’ increased participation in juvenile justice, along with the confounding problems created by inadequate understanding and treatment of them by the system, necessitates that feminist criminological research further explore female delinquency. In particular, research needs to further explicate...

... Education Garland D Incapacitation Lithuania Neo correctionalist model in England Northern Ireland Recidivism Serbia Slovakia Boot camps in Germany Diversion Family conferencing Immigrants Juvenile Justice Act JJA Koch Roland Croatia Hungary Labor and learning sanctions in Netherlands Last...

... interventions is discussed in more detail, using Finland and Sweden as examples. With regard to international obligations to restrict the use imprisonment for juveniles, Nordic countries have a clean record. Finland and to a certain extent Norway have remained more consistent in their efforts to separate...

...This chapter documents the recent history of juvenile justice in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and contrasts the Chinese systems with their Western counterparts. It begins by tracing the early history of Chinese juvenile justice. The PRC got off to a rather late start by international...

...This chapter provides a historical overview of important developments leading to the enactment of the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA) of 2000. It also highlights the salient features of the JJA 2000 and examines critical questions under the act. The purpose of the JJA 2000 is “to consolidate and amend...

...This chapter provides an extensive history of juvenile justice in Poland and traces the apparent impact of the country's transition from socialist satellite that happened in 1989. The juvenile justice system in Poland is currently regulated by the 1982 Juvenile Act (JA). As a result of regulations...

...This chapter traces the ideological and operational impact of the transition from apartheid to democratic rule in South African juvenile courts. It demonstrates that the child-saving movement had its followers in colonial South Africa. It recounts valiant reform efforts in the Union era, followed...

...This chapter assesses the impact of legislative change and political change on juvenile justice policy in Japan and South Korea. In Japan, the changes that invite analysis are legislation that shifted policies and procedures in criminal justice and in juvenile justice over the period after the mid...

...) and the Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC), the BSLN developed a strategy to reduce gun violence among youth, while connecting this effort to ameliorative juvenile justice policies. They lobbied for harsher prison sentences, putting more police officers on the street, and the death penalty...

...This chapter assesses post-civil rights activists in the juvenile justice reform movement (JJRM) from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It examines how the JJRM's movement infrastructure, along with the regional and local political cultures that shaped the orientation of their key activists...

... the ages of 14 and 18—accountable for their alleged crimes while acknowledging their adolescence and attempting to divert them away from the full force of the adult sentences they were facing. The chapter also explores the history and development of juvenile justice within the United States, and describes...

... discretion, and how the development of a unique courtroom culture provided an alternative to, and indeed a subversion of, the retributive goals of the Juvenile Offender Law. Youthful Offender treatment extralegal factors judicial discretion monitoring of defendants by Youth Part unintended consequences...

...This concluding chapter discusses how the experiment in juvenile justice undertaken by the Manhattan Youth Part provides a model for responding to serious adolescent lawbreakers—a model that holds youths accountable for their actions, allows for consideration of the reality of their youthfulness...

... as an institutionalized response to punishment, the development of the juvenile justice system, and the birth of a probation and parole system. Finally, it discusses how drug courts implement coerced treatment predicated on rehabilitation that is both transformative and punitive. Conscience and Convenience Rothman...

...Chapter 4 looks at the discourses and practices of juvenile justice policy in the county. A new and large juvenile facility enjoyed substantial and passionate support in the community, including from the few local leaders suspicious of or hesitant about the overall justice campus proposal. Through...

...This introductory chapter presents the basic principles of the juvenile court. Foremost among these is the radical idea that the law should treat children differently from adults. The political philosopher John Locke argued that children's lack of reasoning capacity, which disqualified them from...