• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Juvenile justice in the making
  • Contributor: Tanenhaus, David Spinoza [Author]
  • Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Published in: Studies in crime and public policy
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xxx, 231 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306507.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199850587; 0199850585
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  • Keywords: Juvenile courts History United States ; Juvenile justice, Administration of History United States
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: Faith in childhood, and its corollary that separate courts are required for children because they are developmentally different from adults, appears to be vanishing in the USA. This book examines one of America's most influential legal inventions and its future.