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 …
'An American Travesty' examines the attitude of the American judicial system to juvenile sexual offenders. Too often, it argues, the system treats juveniles as if they were adults & failes to take either age or developmental status into account.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
A critique of the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. The author argues the American legal system fails to take age and developmental status into account when adjudicating young sexual offenders, responding as it would…
"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. Franklin E. Zimring discusses the "American travesty" noted in the title - our society's failure to…
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 …
"The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law is a comprehensive study of the juvenile justice system that examines how juvenile defenders are defined and classified and utilizes the current literature to illustrate the significant stages of juvenile process…
"Everybody makes mistakes and sometimes we make bad choices that gets us in trouble. But what about when those mistakes are really serious and the bad choices were very bad? Kids who have been arrested and find themselves in the juvenile court system are often scared and worried…
