An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (Adolescent Development and Legal Policy) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (Adolescent Development and Legal Policy) Book

An American Travesty : Hardback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226983578 : 0226983579 : 30 Jun 2004 : Analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. This book discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders.Read More

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    An American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system’s response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult.

     

    “An opinionated, articulate, and forceful critique of current politics and practices. . . . I would recommend this book for anyone interested in rethinking the fundamental questions of how our courts and systems should respond to these cases.”—Law and Politics Book Review

     

    “One of the most important new books in the field of juvenile justice. . . . Zimring offers a thoughtful, research-based analysis of what went wrong with legal policy development.”—Barry Krisberg, President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency

     

     

  • 0226983579
  • 9780226983578
  • FE Zimring
  • 8 June 2004
  • Chicago University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 216
  • 2nd
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