American Juvenile Justice

Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of many books on topics including deterrence, the changing legal world of adolescence, capital punishment, the scale of imprisonment, and drug control. His books include The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (voted a Book of the Year by the Economist), When Police Kill, and The City That Became Safe.

Introduction

Part I Adolescence: Social Facts and Legal Theory
one Childhood and Public Law before the Revolution
two Modern Adolescence as a Learner's Permit
three The Problem of Individual Variation
Conclusion to Part I

Part II - A Rationale for American Juvenile Justice
four The Common Thread: Diversion in Juvenile Justice
five Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender: Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility
six The Central Mission of Separate Juvenile Courts

Part III - The Adolescent Offender
seven Kids, Groups and Crime
eight Two Patterns of Age Progression
nine American Youth Violence-A Cautionary Tale

Part IV - Policy Problems in Modern Juvenile Justice
ten Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification-How Should Juvenile Courts Respond?
eleven Juvenile or Criminal Court? A Punitive Theory of Waiver
twelve Reducing the Harms of Minority Overrepresentation in American Juvenile Justice
thirteen Choosing a Coherent Policy toward Juveniles and Guns
fourteen The Hardest of the Hard Cases: The Young Homicide Offender
fifteen Strategy and Tactics in Juvenile Justice Reform

Notes and References
Index