This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions
to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions
in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many
fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the
Future for American Juvenile Justice provides a look at the recent
trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and
policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults
when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What
factors should be considered in how youth are punished?What role
should the police have in schools?
This essential volume, edited by two of the leading scholars on
juvenile justice, and with contributors who are among the key
experts on each issue, the volume focuses on the most pressing
issues of the day: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding
of brain development and subsequent sentencing, the relationship of
schools and the police, the issue of the school-to-prison pipeline,
the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the
need for national policies--including registration
requirements--for juvenile sex offenders. Choosing the Future for
American Juvenile Justice is not only a timely collection, based on
the most current research, but also a forward-thinking volume that
anticipates the needs for substantive and future changes in
juvenile justice.
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