Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration

This casebook explores the legal, administrative, and policy issues related to regulating children rather than adults, including the implications of a justice system that emphasizes treatment rather than punishment. It also examines adolescents' competence to exercise procedural rights and their culpability, and discusses controversial issues such as gender and racial disparities in juvenile justice administration. It includes empirical evaluations and research on adolescent competence and presents criminological studies of pretrial detention and alternative sentencing options.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1106 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2018
Publisher: West Academic Publishing

This comprehensive casebook delves into a multifaceted exploration of legal, administrative, and policy issues pertaining to the regulation of children rather than adults. It examines the procedural and substantive implications of a justice system that prioritizes treatment over punishment, as well as the tensions between discretion and rules that arise when states treat children differently from adults. The book also explores adolescents' competence to exercise procedural rights and the evolving conceptions of their culpability, which significantly impact their dispositions in juvenile courts and sentences as adults in criminal courts.

To support its analysis, the casebook incorporates a wealth of empirical evaluations, developmental psychological and neuroscience research on adolescent competence, and criminological studies of controversial issues such as gender and racial disparities in juvenile justice administration. It examines pretrial detention and alternative sentencing options available to juvenile courts, discussing how and when states try youths in criminal court. Furthermore, this edition includes the Supreme Court's recent Eighth Amendment decisions, which recognize that children are distinct and limit judges' sentencing authority; Fifth Amendment decisions, which reappraise the impact of youthfulness during interrogation; and Fourth Amendment decisions affecting school officials' authority to search.

By examining these critical themes, this casebook provides a comprehensive and insightful examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of children in the legal system. It is an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with this field.

Weight: 1980g
Dimension: 206 x 262 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781640202160
Edition number: 5 Revised edition