Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform

by Simon I. Singer

Book Overview

Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from juvenile court to criminal court. It focuses on the creation, implementation, and effects of waiver legislation that lowered the eligible age of criminal responsibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521629209
• ISBN13: 9780521629201
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book by a great professor

i am currently taking dr. singers course in juvenile justice at the undergraduate level..we are using this book as part of the curriculum...it is a great book..very facinating and intriguing..he is a remarkable writer and his words grip you...