Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court Barry C. Feld, Centennial Professor of Law Barry C Feld ... Journal of Criminal Justice 15:185–200. , and Brent L. Smith. 1986. ... Crime and Delinquency 23: 196–203.
A guided tour of what constituted unacceptable behavior in children from various historical eras describes the crimes and punishments of teen ninjas, young victims of the Salem witch trials and a youngster who poached a rabbit on someone ...
So you're standing outside the Head Office, waiting to be told off for breaking a classroom window.
Historians characterize a refuges as a "juvenile penitentiary," a scaled-down prison that reflected the managers' ambivalence about uplifting poor children and caretaking potentially dangerous young criminals (Schlossman 1977).
The book explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both Supreme Court decisions and a political impetus to "get tough" on young offenders.
Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal ...