TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zimring,Franklin E.
TI  - An American travesty: legal responses to adolescent sexual offending 
T2  - Adolescent development and legal policy
SN  - 9780226983592 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KF9802 .Z56 2004eb
U1  - 364.15/3/08350973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Teenage sex offenders
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - Sex crimes
KW  - Juvenile courts
KW  - Jeunes délinquants sexuels
KW  - Droit
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Crimes sexuels
KW  - Tribunaux pour enfants et adolescents
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sexual Abuse & Harassment
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - სამართლებრივი რეაგირება მოზარდის სექსუალურ შეურაცხყოფაზე
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index; Three case studies -- Continuity and change in American sex-crime policy -- The juvenile sex-offender -- The emergence of juvenile sex offender treatment -- The sex offender in juvenile court -- Reform in juvenile court -- Registration, community notification, and juvenile sex offenders
N2  - 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 to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult. "An opinionated, articulate, and forceful critique of current politics and p
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