Feld's Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration, 3D

by Barry C. Feld

This casebook focuses on three themes: legal, administrative, and policy issues associated with regulating children rather than adults; procedural and substantive implications of a justice system that emphasizes treatment rather than punishment; and tensions between discretion and rules that occur when states treat children rather than punish adults. It incorporates empirical evaluations and developmental psychological research on adolescent competence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314192069
• ISBN13: 9780314192066
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: West
• Length: 1042 Pages
• Weight: 4.38 lbs.