Product Description: When fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault of Globe, Arizona, allegedly made an obscene phone call to a neighbor, he was arrested by the local police, who failed to inform his parents. After a hearing in which the neighbor didn't even testify, Gault was promptly sentenced to six years in a juvenile "boot camp" for an offense that would have cost an adult only two months...read more

Product Description: Now in its second edition, this casebook provides a unique teaching tool for examining the issues relating to children charged with crime in the juvenile courts. It is an innovative blend of the analytical, conceptual, practical and ethical considerations arising in that context...read more

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 and presents criminological studies of controversial issues such as gender and racial disparities in juvenile justice administration. It also examines pretrial detention and alternative sentencing options available to juvenile courts and discusses how and when states try youths in criminal court.

Product Description: This text is one of three books in the Criminal Justice Case Briefs series, each of which provides a summary and analysis of leading cases in a particular area of criminal justice: criminal procedure law, corrections law, or juvenile law...read more

Product Description: Book by Hemmens, Craig, Steiner, Benjamin, Mueller, David

Product Description: This textbook provides a thorough historical overview of the rise of juvenile courts. Considered by reviewers the most complete and readable overview of the juvenile justice field, it is now ready for use in introductory courses in Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice Administration...read more

Product Description: This collection of 78 appellate decisions in juvenile law spans the range of judicial opinion during the 20th century. It is arranged chronologically to offer a sense of the flow of the juvenile court and its break with the criminal law and punishing sanctions of 19th-century penology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This casebook provides detailed information on the juvenile justice process. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series; , it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Casebook focuses on three themes: legal and administrative consequences of 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 in a system that treats children rather than punishes adults...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Del Carmen, Rolando V., Parker, Mary, Reddington, Frances P.

Product Description: This much-needed casebook provides a thorough historical overview as well as a thoughtful selection of appellate cases followed by editorial comments and questions. The police section focuses on cases dealing with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments rights of juveniles, and the processing of offenders...read more

Product Description: Book by Cohen, Fred