Recriminalizing delinquency : violent juvenile crime and juvenile justice reform
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Recriminalizing delinquency : violent juvenile crime and juvenile justice reform
（Cambridge criminology series）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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