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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782726903321

Autore

Corriero Michael

Titolo

Judging Children As Children [[electronic resource] ] : A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-50576-9

9786612505768

1-59213-784-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

345.73/08

345.7308

Soggetti

Juvenile corrections - United States

Juvenile corrections -- United States

Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States

Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States

Criminal Law & Procedure - U.S

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 The Proposition; 2 The Nature of Adolescence; 3 The Criminal Responsibility of Juveniles; 4 Sentencing Children Tried in Adult Courts; 5 Our Hardest-to-Love Children; 6 Interactive Justice; 7 Fridays in the Youth Part: How the Judicial Interactive Process Works; 8 The Experiment that Failed; 9 Creation of the Youth Part; 10 The Youth Part Model; 11 A Model Juvenile Justice System; 12 Juvenile Justice Policy Reform; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when America's court system increasingly tries juvenile offenders as adults, Michael Corriero draws directly from his experience as the founding judge of a special juvenile court to propose a new approach to dealing with youthful offenders. Since 1992, Judge Corriero has presided over the Manhattan Youth Part, a New York City court specifically designed to discipline teenage offenders. Its guiding



principles, clearly laid out in this book, are that children are developmentally different from adults and that a judge can be a formidable force in shaping the lives of chil