It is often said that a teen "old enough to do the crime is old
enough to do the time", but are teens really mature and capable
enough to participate fully and fairly in adult criminal court? In
this book - the fruit of the MacArthur Foundation Network on
Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice - a wide range of
leaders in developmental psychology and law combine their expertise
to investigate the current limitations on our youth policy. The
first part of the book establishes a developmental perspective on
juvenile justice; the second and third parts then apply this
perspective to issues of adolescents' capacities as trial
defendants and to questions of legal culpability. Underlying the
entire work is the assumption that an enlightened juvenile justice
system cannot ignore the developmental psychological realities of
adolescence. Not only a state-of-the-art assessment of the
conceptual and empirical issues in the forensic assessment of
youth, "Youth on Trial" is also a call to reintroduce sound, humane
public policy into our justice system.
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