An American travesty [electronic resource] : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending / Franklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen.
By: Zimring, Franklin E
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TextSeries: Adolescent development and legal policy: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (xv, 195 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780226983592 (electronic bk.); 0226983595 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Teenage sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | Sex crimes -- United States | Juvenile courts -- United States | Jeunes délinquants sexuels -- Droit -- États-Unis | Crimes sexuels -- États-Unis | Tribunaux pour enfants et adolescents -- États-Unis | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment | სამართლებრივი რეაგირება მოზარდის სექსუალურ შეურაცხყოფაზეGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: American travesty.DDC classification: 364.15/3/08350973 LOC classification: KF9802 | .Z56 2004ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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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