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

• Autore: Corriero Michael
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.73/08; 345.7308
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Judging Children As Children
• ISBN: 1-282-50576-9; 9786612505768; 1-59213-784-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782726903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II