The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice
Subtitle: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
Contributors: Jeffrey Fagan (Editor); Franklin E. Zimring (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226233802
Subjects: Juvenile offenders; Criminal Justice Administration; Law; Sociology; Criminal Procedure; Criminology; Life Stages - Adolescence; Social Science / Criminology; Criminal Law - General; Criminal courts; Extenuating circumstances; Juvenile justice, Administrati; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Transfer of cause; United States
First sentence: Anglo-American courts from at least the fourteenth century have used chronological age as an approximate measuring stick to distinguish children from adults in determining their culpability for crime (Platt and Diamond 1966, 1233-34).