American Youth Violence - Rilegato

Zimring, Franklin E.

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ISBN 10: 0195121457 ISBN 13: 9780195121452

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1999

Riassunto

This is the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States as both a social phenomenon and a policy problem. Franklin Zimring, one of America's most esteemed scholars of law and crime, scrutinizes criminal statistics and demographic trends in order to authoritatively address public worries. The result is a thorough debunking of Congressional predictions of "a coming storm of juvenile violence" and the half-baked policy proposals that accompany such warnings. The book sets forth comprehensive and dispassionate analyses of three key areas of youth violence policy: adolescent firearms possession and use, standards for transfer from juvenile to criminal court jurisdiction, and legal sanctions for adolescents who kill. Throughout American YouthViolence, the core issues of youth violence in the 1990s are examined with an unprecedented degree of analytic rigour. Zimring also offers an appropriate set of responses to youth violence that are consistent with a positive future for the juvenile court and for American youth.

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Zimring's book offers a clear and concise analysis of the problem of contemporary youth crime that both debunks myths and points a way forward for future research. (Keith Hayward, University of East London)

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195121457
• ISBN 13: 9780195121452
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224