Recriminalizing delinquency : violent juvenile crime and juvenile justice reform /

Recriminalizing delinquency : violent juvenile crime and juvenile justice reform / Simon I. Singer.

Recriminalizing Delinquency provides a detailed account of one state's attempt to control violent juvenile crime by redefining previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It begins with the brutal violence of a 15-year-old chronic delinquent, and the subsequen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Simon I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge criminology series.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of > New York (State)
Criminal justice, Administration of > New York (State)
Juvenile delinquents > New York (State)
Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > Prevention.
Violent crimes > New York (State) > Prevention.
Law reform > New York (State)
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Recriminalizing violent juvenile crime
  • Taking stock of juvenile justice reforms
  • Recriminalization on the move and its legal rules
  • Contextual and legal reasons for identifying juveniles as criminal offenders
  • The case processing of juvenile offenders: from arrest to disposition
  • Recriminalization and organizing for deterrence
  • Convicted juvenile offenders in a maximum security institution
  • Concluding 'real' reasons for recriminalizing delinquency
  • Appendices
  • Notes.

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