Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice

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<p>This<br>is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the<br>juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in<br>making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice<br>provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions<br>for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults<br>when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What factors<br>should be considered in how youth are punished?What role should the police have in schools?<br><br>This essential volume, edited by two of the leading<br>scholars on juvenile justice, and with contributors who are among the key<br>experts on each issue, the volume focuses on the most pressing issues of the<br>day: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development and<br>subsequent sentencing, the relationship of schools and the police, the issue of<br>the school-to-prison pipeline, the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the need for national<br>policiesincluding registration requirements--for juvenile sex offenders. Choosing<br>the Future for American Juvenile Justice is not only a timely collection, based<br>on the most current research, but also a forward-thinking volume that<br>anticipates the needs for substantive and future changes in juvenile justice.</p>

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