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Courting Kids : Inside an Experimental Youth Court /

Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us beh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barrett, Carla J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : an experiment in youth justice
  • Calendar days
  • Creating the "juvenile offender"
  • Rehabilitation, youth part style
  • Individualized justice in a criminal court
  • Managing contradictions
  • Judging the court, judging transfer
  • Conclusion : kids will be kids.