The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice

by Christopher P. Manfredi

Book Overview

Over the past century, attitudes toward juvenile crime have alternated between rehabilitation and crime control, and even now are being revised in response to increasing gang violence. But by the 1960s, it had become obvious that juvenile offenders were being deprived of fundamental rights, leading Supreme Court Justice Fortas to declare that "neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone."

The Supreme Court...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700610286
• ISBN13: 9780700610280
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"