Courting Kids : Inside an Experimental Youth Court / Carla J. Barrett.
2012
KFN6196 .B37 2013
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Title
Courting Kids : Inside an Experimental Youth Court / Carla J. Barrett.
Author
Barrett, Carla J., author.
ISBN
9780814760048
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814709467.001.0001 doi
Call Number
KFN6196 .B37 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.7471081
Summary
Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults in New York City. Focusing on the lives of those coming through and working in the courtroom, Barrett's ethnography is a study of a microcosm that reflects the costs, challenges, and consequences the "tough on crime" age has had, especially for male youth of color. She demonstrates how the court, through creative use of judicial discretion and the cultivation of an innovative courtroom culture, developed a set of strategies for handling "adult-juvenile " cases that embraced, rather than denied, defendants' adolescence.
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Alternative Criminology ; ; 25
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction. An Experiment in Youth Justice
CHAPTER ONE. Calendar Days in the Youth Part
CHAPTER TWO. Creating the "Juvenile Offender"
CHAPTER THREE. Rehabilitation, Youth Part Style
CHAPTER FOUR. Individualized Justice in a Criminal Court
CHAPTER FIVE. Managing Contradictions
CHAPTER SIX. Judging the Court, Judging Transfer
Conclusion. Kids Will Be Kids
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction. An Experiment in Youth Justice
CHAPTER ONE. Calendar Days in the Youth Part
CHAPTER TWO. Creating the "Juvenile Offender"
CHAPTER THREE. Rehabilitation, Youth Part Style
CHAPTER FOUR. Individualized Justice in a Criminal Court
CHAPTER FIVE. Managing Contradictions
CHAPTER SIX. Judging the Court, Judging Transfer
Conclusion. Kids Will Be Kids
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR