Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration

by Feld, Barry C.

• ISBN13: 9780195104042
• ISBN10: 0195104048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration analyzes the judicial, legal,and correctional agencies that respond to delinquent offenders. The book beginswith a discussion of the origins of the juvenile court system. It then examinesjuvenile justice administration, the quality of procedural justice in juvenilecourts, the boundaries between delinquents and criminals, and the sentencing ofdelinquents in juvenile courts. The book concludes by exploring what reasonsthere are to maintain a separate juvenile justice system for youngoffenders.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
1. ORIGINS OF THE JUVENILE COURT	5	(31)
Re-imagining Childhood and Reconstructing the Legal Order: The Case for Abolishing the Juvenile Court	8	(5)
Janet E. Ainsworth
The Juvenile Court	13	(7)
Julian W. Mack
The Triumph of Benevolence: The Origins of the Juvenile Justice System in the United States	20	(16)
Anthony Platt
2. GATEWAY TO THE JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESS: VARIETIES OF JUVENILE COURTS	36	(44)
Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Crime	38	(14)
Howard Snyder
Melissa Sickmund
Justice by Geography: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Variations in Juvenile Justice Administration	52	(15)
Barry C. Feld
Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control	67	(13)
Robert J. Sampson
John H. Laub
3. PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN JUVENILE COURT	80	(81)
A. Pretrial Detention	84	(32)
Detention	88	(11)
Howard Snyder
Melissa Sickmund
Preventive Detention and the Judicial Prediction of Dangerousness for Juveniles: A Natural Experiment	99	(17)
Jeffrey Fagan
Martin Guggenheim
B. The Right to Counsel	116	(23)
In re Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court	117	(10)
Barry C. Feld
The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Study of When Lawyers Appear and the Difference They Make	127	(12)
Barry C. Feld
C. The Right to a Jury Trial	139	(22)
Re-imagining Childhood and Reconstructing the Legal Order: The Case for Abolishing the Juvenile Court	141	(8)
Janet E. Ainsworth
Remnants of Parens Patriae in the Adjudicatory Hearing: Is a Fair Trial Possible in Juvenile Court?	149	(12)
Joseph B. Sanborn, Jr.
4. TRANSFER OF SERIOUS YOUNG OFFENDERS TO CRIMINAL COURT	161	(65)
Juveniles and Violence	167	(5)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Transfer	172	(12)
Howard Snyder
Melissa Sickmund
A. Judicial Waiver	184	(20)
The End of the Line: An Empirical Study of Judicial Waiver	184	(20)
Marcy Rasmussen Podkopacz
Barry C. Feld
B. Legislative Offense Exclusion	204	(6)
The Automatic Waiver of Juveniles and Substantive Justice	204	(6)
Simon I. Singer
C. Prosecutorial Waiver	210	(16)
Prosecutorial Waiver: Case Study of a Questionable Reform	210	(16)
Donna M. Bishop
Charles E. Frazier
John C. Henretta
5. SENTENCING DELINQUENT OFFENDERS	226	(115)
The Juvenile Court Meets the Principle of Offense: Punishment, Treatment, and the Difference It Makes	228	(18)
Barry C. Feld
A. Juvenile Court Sentencing Practices	246	(32)
Role Determinants in Juvenile Court	248	(19)
Robert M. Emerson
Race Effects in Juvenile Justice Decision-Making: Findings of a Statewide Analysis	267	(11)
Donna M. Bishop
Charles E. Frazier
B. Juvenile Institutions and Alternatives	278	(43)
Juvenile Corrections	279	(16)
Howard Snyder
Melissa Sickmund
A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure and Inmate Subcultures in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders	295	(16)
Barry C. Feld
Evaluation of the Paint Creek Youth Center: A Residential Program for Serious Delinquents	311	(10)
Peter W. Greenwood
Susan Turner
C. What Works?--Rehabilitation as a Justification for the Juvenile Court	321	(20)
A Meta-Analysis of Juvenile Correctional Treatment	323	(7)
John T. Whitehead
Steven P. Lab
The Effectiveness of Intervention: Recent Trends and Current Issues	330	(11)
Ted Palmer
6. THE FUTURE OF THE JUVENILE COURT	341
Taking Gault Seriously: Toward a New Juvenile Court	343	(13)
Gary B. Melton
Criminalizing the American Juvenile Court	356	(11)
Barry C. Feld
Leaving Bad Enough Alone: A Response to the Juvenile Court Abolitionists	367
Irene Merker Rosenberg