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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458967603321

Autore

Zimring Franklin E

Titolo

An American travesty [[electronic resource] ] : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending / / Franklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-50585-8

9786612505850

0-226-98359-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Adolescent development and legal policy

Altri autori (Persone)

AllenFrancis A

Disciplina

364.15/3/08350973

Soggetti

Teenage sex offenders - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Sex crimes - United States

Juvenile courts - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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