An American Travesty : Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending /

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An American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimring, Franklin E. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Allen, Francis A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Colección:Adolescent Development and Legal Policy
Temas:
Juvenile courts > United States.
Sex crimes > United States.
Teenage sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
sexual misconduct, assault, youth offenders, legal system, law, children, adolescents, sex crimes, juvenile courts, reform, race, consent, rape, community notification, registration, statutory, nonfiction, crime, criminals, recidivism, developmental status, age, legislation, social work, psychiatry, psychology, criminology, policy, punishment, rehabilitation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Juvenile Sex Offender
  • Chapter 1. Three Case Studies
  • Chapter 2. Continuity and Change in American Sex-Crime Policy
  • Chapter 2. Continuity and Change in American Sex-Crime Policy
  • Chapter 4. The Emergence of Juvenile Sex-Offender Treatment
  • Part II. Principles and Policies
  • Chapter 5. The Sex Offender in Juvenile Court
  • Chapter 6. Reform in Juvenile Court
  • Chapter 7. Registration, Community Notification, and Juvenile Sex Offenders: Resolving Policy Conflicts
  • Appendix A. Statutory Provisions Concerning Indecent Sexual Contact with Minors (in Fifty U.S. States and the District of Columbia)
  • Appendix B. Topics in Sex-Offender Treatment
  • Appendix C. Research on Sex-Offender Recidivism
  • References
  • Index

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