Juvenile justice
By: David Haugen and Susan Musser, book editors
Series: Teen rights and freedoms
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780737764888
Subjects: Administration of Juvenile justice; Teenagers; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Juvenile justice rights and reform : an overview  /  Barry Krisberg; title: Juvenile offenders must be granted due process rights under the 14th Amendment  : the Supreme Court's decision / Abe Fortas; title: Juvenile criminal proceedings should restore focus on minors' due process rights by returning to standards set in In Re Gault / Benjamine E. Friedman; title: Neither the 6th nor 14th Amendment guarantees a juvenile offender the right to a trial by jury : the Supreme Court's decision / Harry Blackman; title: The withholding of jury trials from juvenile offenders is outdated in a more punitive juvenile justice system  /  Katherine Hunt Federle; title: Juveniles should be tried as adults when they have committed violent crimes / Linda J. Collier; title: Juveniles should not be tried or sentenced as adults /    Patrick T. McCormick; title: The mother of a son incarcerated in an adult prison tells why the system fails young people : personal narrative / Tracey McClard; title: Rates of juvenile incarceration should be reduced / Richard A. Mendel; title: A woman who spent time in a youth detention facility recounts the poor treatment she received there : personal narrative / Rachel Carrin; title: Juveniles should not be exempted from the death penalty as a group, but judged on an individual basis / Dan Cutrer; title: Sentencing a juvenile offender to the death penalty violates the 8th and 14th Amendments : the Supreme Court's decision / Anthony Kennedy; title: Minors should be sentenced to life in prison without parole under certain circumstances / Scott D. Makar; title: It Is unconstitutional to sentence minors to life in prison without parole for crimes less than homicide : the Supreme Court's decision / Anthony Kennedy; title: A prisoner explains how he has grown to understand the significance of crime : personal narrative / James Earl Jackson; title: A mother of a murder victim argues that minors should not be sentenced to life without parole : personal narrative /  Linda L. White; title: The sister of a murder victim urges legislators not to abolish the life without parole sentence for juvenile murderers : personal narrative / Bobbi Jamriska.