Youth on Trial
Subtitle: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
Contributors: Thomas Grisso (Editor); Robert G. Schwartz (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: August 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780226309125
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Juvenile offenders; Courts; Juvenile Justice Administration; Sociology; Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminology; Life Stages - Adolescence; Social Science / Criminology; Courts - General; Criminal Law - General; Competency to stand trial; Criminal liability; Juvenile courts; Juvenile justice, Administrati; Juvenile justice, Administration of; United States
First sentence: Few issues challenge a society's ideas about both the nature of human development and the nature of justice as much as serious juvenile crime.