The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice

by Fagan, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780226233802
• ISBN10: 0226233804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime--youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more recently, epidemic gun violence and drug-related crime--have spurred laws and policies aimed at narrowing the reach of the juvenile court. Despite declining juvenile crime rates, every state in the country has increased the number of youths tried and punished as adults. Research in this area has not kept pace with these legislative developments. There has never been a detailed, sociolegal analytic book devoted to this topic. In this important collection, researchers discuss policy, substantive procedural and empirical dimensions of waivers, and where the boundaries of the courts lie. Part 1 provides an overview of the origins and development of law and contemporary policy on the jurisdiction of adolescents. Part 2 examines the effects of jurisdictional shifts. Part 3 offers valuable insight into the developmental and psychological aspects of current and future reforms. Contributors: Donna Bishop, Richard Bonnie, M. A. Bortner, Elizabeth Cauffman, Linda Frost Clausel, Robert O. Dawson, Jeffrey Fagan, Barry Feld, Charles Frazier, Thomas Grisso, Darnell Hawkins, James C. Howell, Akiva Liberman, Richard Redding, Simon Singer, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, Marjorie Zatz, and Franklin E. Zimring

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Francis A. Allen
Acknowledgments	xvii
Editors' Introduction	1	(12)
Jeffrey Fagan
Franklin E. Zimring
Part I. The Evolution of Intercourt Transfer
The Evolution of Transfer out of the Juvenile Court	13	(32)
David S. Tanenhaus
Judicial Waiver in Theory and Practice	45	(38)
Robert O. Dawson
Legislative Exclusion of Offenses from Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: A History and Critique	83	(62)
Barry C. Feld
Blended Sentencing in American Juvenile Courts	145	(36)
Richard E. Redding
James C. Howell
Juvenile Justice on Appeal	181	(26)
Lynda E. Frost Clausel
Richard J. Bonnie
The Punitive Necessity of Waiver	207	(20)
Franklin E. Zimring
Part II. The Impacts of Jurisdiction Shifts
Consequences of Transfer	227	(50)
Donna Bishop
Charles Frazier
Race and Transfer: Empirical Research and Social Context	277	(44)
M. A. Bortner
Marjorie S. Zatz
Darnell F. Hawkins
Forensic Clinical Evaluations Related to Waiver of Jurisdiction	321	(32)
Thomas Grisso
The Reproduction of Juvenile Justice in Criminal Court: A Case Study of New York's Juvenile Offender Law	353	(26)
Simon I. Singer
Jeffrey Fagan
Akiva Liberman
Part III. Perspectives on Reform
A Development Perspective on Jurisdictional Boundary	379	(28)
Laurence Steinberg
Elizabeth Cauffman
Transfer Policy and Law Reform	407	(18)
Franklin E. Zimring
Jeffrey Fagan
Contributors	425	(2)
Case Index	427	(4)
Name Index	431	(2)
Subject Index	433