Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both the Supreme Court decisions to provide delinquents with procedural justice and the more recent political impetus to "get tough" on young offenders. This provocative book will be necessary reading for criminal and juvenile justice scholars, sociologists, legislators, and juvenile justice personnel.

Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Feld, Barry C.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Within the past three decades, social and legal changes have transformed the juvenile court from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a second-class criminal court for young offenders. Recent efforts to "toughen" juvenile justice policies have resulted in increasingly harsh sanctions that fall disproportionately on minority youths. In this provocative new book, Barry Feld examines what went wrong with the juvenile court and proposes an alternative model for youth crime control and child welfare. The Progressive reformers who created the juvenile court a century ago saw children as relatively blameless and innocent. But recent decades of rising crime rates associated with urban decay have strained this tolerant view of young offenders. Feld relates the 1967 Supreme Court decision In re Gault to the broader social and legal changes associated with the civil rights movement and the Warren Court's "Due Process Revolution." Although gault mandated more elaborate procedural safeguards in delinquency hearings, ironically, those protections legitimated the imposition of more punitive sanctions. Since Gault, Feld argues, three decades of judicial, legislative, and administrative reforms have conducted a form of "criminological triage." At the "soft end," reforms have shifted noncriminal status offenders, primarily female and white, out of the juvenile justice system into a "hidden system" made up of private sector mental health and chemical dependency facilities. At the "hard end," states transfer increasing numbers of young offenders, disproportionately minorities, to criminal court for prosecution as adults. Meanwhile, juvenile courts punish more severely those delinquents-again disproportionately minorities-who remain within the increasingly criminalized juvenile justice system. Feld attributes the current state of affairs to a conceptual flaw inherent in the juvenile court. The juvenile justice system attempts t

Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration analyzes the judicial, legal, and correctional agencies that respond to delinquent offenders. The book begins with a discussion of the origins of the juvenile court system. It then examines juvenile justice administration, the quality of procedural justice in juvenile courts, the boundaries between delinquents and criminals, and the sentencing of delinquents in juvenile courts. The book concludes by exploring what reasons there are to maintain a separate juvenile justice system for young offenders.

Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Readings in Crime and Punishment)

Cases And Materials On Juvenile Justice Administration

Family Law

West Academic

Casebook focuses on three themes: legal and administrative consequences of regulating children rather than adults; procedural and substantive implications of a justice system that emphasizes treatment rather than punishment; and tensions between discretion and rules that occur in a system that treats children rather than punishes adults. Incorporates empirical evaluations and presents psychological research into controversial issues such as gender and racial disparities in juvenile justice administration. Examines the pretrial detention of juveniles and examines how and when states try youths in criminal court rather than in juvenile court. Also explores the alternative sentencing options available to juvenile courts.

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration 2006 (American Casebook Series)

Criminal Law

West Group

Comprehensive coverage of Western Civilization since 1550 includes Chapters 15-30 of the larger text. Begins with a 10-page preface summarizing the events leading up to this point in history.

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration, 2008 (American Casebook)

This title focuses exclusively on the criminal and non-criminal misconduct of children that bring them within the jurisdiction of juvenile courts and examines law enforcement, judicial, and administrative responses to that misconduct. It deals with issues of children's rights only insofar as they relate to the processes of investigating and prosecuting juvenile offenders for delinquency and status-offenses. Like all Nutshells, it strives to provide a succinct exposition of the law for students studying juvenile justice, for lawyers who do not regularly practice in juvenile court, and for legislators and policy officials involved in juvenile justice law reform efforts.

Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

This casebook focuses on three themes: Legal, administrative, and policy issues associated with regulating children rather than adults Procedural and substantive implications of a justice system that emphasizes treatment rather than punishment Tensions between discretion and rules that occur when states treat children rather than punish adultsIt incorporates empirical evaluations and developmental psychological research on adolescent competence and presents criminological studies of controversial issues, such as gender and racial disparities in juvenile justice administration. It also examines pretrial detention and alternative sentencing options available to juvenile courts and discusses how and when states try youths in criminal court. New to this edition are: The Supreme Court's most recent decisions on the jurisprudence of youth Eighth Amendment decisions that recognized that children are different and limit judges' authority to impose life wit

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration 4th (American Casebook Series)

West Academic Publishing

This Nutshell title focuses exclusively on the criminal and non-criminal misconduct of children that bring them within the jurisdiction of juvenile courts and examines law enforcement, judicial, and administrative responses to that misconduct. It deals with issues of children's rights only insofar as they relate to the processes of investigating and prosecuting juvenile offenders for delinquency and status-offenses. Like all Nutshells, it strives to provide a succinct exposition of the law for students studying juvenile justice, for lawyers who do not regularly practice in juvenile court, and for legislators and policy officials involved in juvenile justice law reform efforts.

Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (Youth, Crime, and Justice, 3)

Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use different sentencing standards than for adults. Yet, when police bring kids in for questioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults, including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants.
 In Kids, Cops, and Confessions, Barry Feld offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawing on remarkable data, Feld analyzes interrogation tapes and transcripts, police reports, juvenile court filings and sentences, and probation and sentencing reports, describing in rich detail what actually happens in the interrogation room. Contrasting routine interrogation and false confessions enables police, lawyers, and judges to identify interrogations that require enhanced scrutiny, to adopt policies to protect citizens, and to assure reliability and integrity of the justice system. Feld has produced an invaluable look at how the justice system really works.

NYU Press

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Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Readings in Crime and Punishment)

Cases And Materials On Juvenile Justice Administration

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration 2006 (American Casebook Series)

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration, 2008 (American Casebook)

Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration 4th (American Casebook Series)

Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (Youth, Crime, and Justice, 3)