Title: Bad Kids
First published: 1999
Description: This book examines what is wrong with the U.S. juvenile court system and proposes an alternative model for youth crime control and child welfare under which states would try all offenders in an integrated criminal justice system with appropriate modifications to accommodate younger offenders. 

Chapters: 
(1) "The Social Construction of Childhood and Adolescence"
(2) "The Juvenile Court and the 'Rehabilitative Ideal'"
(3) "The Constitutional Domestication of the Juvenile Court"
(4) "Procedural Justice in Juvenile Courts: Law on the Books and Law in Action"
(5) "Social Control and Noncriminal Status Offenders: Triage and Privatization"
(6) "Delinquent or Criminal? Juvenile Courts' Shrinking Jurisdiction over Serious Young Offenders"
(7) "Punishment, Treatment, and the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Delinquents"
(8) "Abolish the Juvenile Court: Sentencing Policy When the Child Is a Criminal and the Criminal Is a Child."
Subjects: Administration of Juvenile justice, Adolescence, Delinquent, Discrimination in juvenile justice administration, Punishment, Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice, Justice, Juvenile courts, Juvenile Justice, Justice pour mineurs, pour mineurs  Prison, Rassendiskriminierung, Sentencing, Sentencing Policy, Teenagers, Tribunaux pour enfants et adolescents, Jugendgerichtsbarkeit, Juvenile justice, administration of
Places: United States
LC classification: HV9104 .F43 1999