Bad kids
Subtitle: race and the transformation of the juvenile court
By: Barry C. Feld.
Series: Studies in crime and public policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States; Juvenile courts -- United States; Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- United States
Description: Should juvenile courts be instruments for rehabilitation or strong punishment? Feld argues that today's juvenile courts an out-moded institution that unfairly punishes youth, particularly minority youth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: The social construction of childhood and adolescence -- The juvenile court and the "rehabilitative ideal" -- The constitutional domestication of the juvenile court -- Procedural justice in juvenile courts : Law on the books and law in action -- Social control and noncriminal status offenders : Triage and privatization -- Delinquent or criminal? Juvenile courts' shrinking jurisdiction over serious young offenders -- Punishment, treatment, and the juvenile court : Sentencing delinquents -- Abolish the juvenile court : Sentencing policy when the child is a criminal and the criminal is a child -- Epilogue.