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Juveniles at Risk - A Plea for Preventive Justice (Hardcover, New)
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Juveniles at Risk - A Plea for Preventive Justice (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Psychology-Law Society Series
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First established at the end of the 19th century, the juvenile
justice system has long been searching for an effective set of
guiding principles. Over the last hundred years, through a series
of piecemeal rulings, it has undergone an evolution from its
original foundation on the rehabilitation model to the current
"get-tough" system that increasingly treats juvenile offenders as
adults. At present, there is no overarching theory or model of
juvenile justice intervention in this nation or even in any given
state. Juvenile justice policy is best characterized as a
helter-skelter array, inconsistent across jurisdictions, with no
overarching theoretical framework providing guidance. Indeed, the
field is desperately in need of a coherent model to serve as a
guide to policymaking.
In recent years, substantial gains have been made in the relevant
knowledge on juveniles and offender treatment. We know more about
the cognition and functioning of minors generally, and juvenile
offenders specifically, as well as about how they respond to
different types of interventions. Public attitudes have softened
since the height of the "get-tough" era, and many policymakers are
open to new ideas as they recognize that the current system just
isn't effective. In this book, Slobogin and Fondacaro present their
vision for a new juvenile justice system, founded on the evidence
at hand and promoting the principles of rehabilitation and
reintegration into society. The authors develop their juvenile
justice policy proposals effectively by carefully addressing the
problems with past policy approches and recent theoretical
contributions, the science underlying the new perspective to be
elucidated in the book and how that science informs the authors'
perspectives. Most helpfully, they provide a detailed description
of the proposed new model along with discussion of the procedural
rules that should accompany its implementation, and articulation of
the way in which the model would work in practice. For researchers
and policymakers involved in juvenile justice, this book is a call
to arms and a model for future developments.
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