The evolution of the juvenile court : race, politics, and the criminalizing of juvenile justice / Barry C. Feld.
2017
KF9794 .F45 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The evolution of the juvenile court : race, politics, and the criminalizing of juvenile justice / Barry C. Feld.
Author
Feld, Barry C., author.
ISBN
9781479895694 (hardcover)
1479895695 (hardcover)
1479895695 (hardcover)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
x, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
KF9794 .F45 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.73/08109
Summary
"The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy. Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. [This book] provides a sweeping overview of the American juvenile justice system's development and change over the past century. Noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld places special emphasis on changes over the last 25 years--the ascendance of get tough crime policies and the more recent Supreme Court recognition that "children are different." Feld's comprehensive historical analyses trace juvenile courts' evolution though four periods--the original Progressive Era, the Due Process Revolution in the 1960s, the Get Tough Era of the 1980s and 1990s, and today's Kids Are Different era. In each period, changes in the economy, cities, families, race and ethnicity, and politics have shaped juvenile courts' policies and practices. Changes in juvenile courts' ends and means--substance and procedure--reflect shifting notions of children's culpability and competence. [This book] examines how conservative politicians used coded racial appeals to advocate get tough policies that equated children with adults and more recent Supreme Court decisions that draw on developmental psychology and neuroscience research to bolster its conclusions about youths' reduced criminal responsibility and diminished competence. Feld draws on lessons from the past to envision a new, developmentally appropriate justice system for children. Ultimately, Feld argues, providing justice for children requires structural changes to reduce social and economic inequality--concentrated poverty in segregated urban areas--that disproportionately expose children of color to juvenile courts' punitive policies." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-381) and index.
Series
Youth, crime, and justice series.
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Table of Contents
The progressive juvenile court
The due process revolution and the juvenile court
The get tough era I : structural change and youth crime
The get tough era II : politics of race and crime
The kid is a criminal : transfer and delinquency sanctions
The girl is a criminal : the impact of get tough policies on girls
The student is a criminal : get tough policies and the school-to-prison pipeline
The criminal is a kid : adolescents' diminished culpability
The defendant is a kid : adolescents' competence to exercise procedural rights
Epilogue : opportunities and obstacles.
The due process revolution and the juvenile court
The get tough era I : structural change and youth crime
The get tough era II : politics of race and crime
The kid is a criminal : transfer and delinquency sanctions
The girl is a criminal : the impact of get tough policies on girls
The student is a criminal : get tough policies and the school-to-prison pipeline
The criminal is a kid : adolescents' diminished culpability
The defendant is a kid : adolescents' competence to exercise procedural rights
Epilogue : opportunities and obstacles.