Recriminalizing Delinquency
Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform
Part of Cambridge Studies in Criminology
- Author: Simon I. Singer, Northeastern University, Boston
- Date Published: November 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521629201
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Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from juvenile court to criminal court. It focuses on the creation, implementation, and effects of waiver legislation that lowered the eligible age of criminal responsibility to thirteen for murder and fourteen for other violent offenses. In the end, recriminalization is seen as an effort to return a part of the juvenile justice system to the conditions that existed prior to the creation of juvenile courts.
Read more- Contributes to an understanding of public policy for violent juvenile offenders
- Highly topical, provides an invaluable insight into newly emerging systems of juvenile justice
- Examines in detail the reasons for bringing juveniles into criminal court
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- Date Published: November 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521629201
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.378kg
- contains: 16 b/w illus. 21 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Recriminalizing violent juvenile crime
2. Taking stock of juvenile justice reforms
3. Recriminalization on the move and its legal rules
4. Contextual and legal reasons for identifying juveniles as criminal offenders
5. The case processing of juvenile offenders: from arrest to disposition
6. Recriminalization and organizing for deterrence
7. Convicted juvenile offenders in a maximum security institution
8. Concluding 'real' reasons for recriminalizing delinquency
Appendices
Notes.
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