Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach

National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc; Committee on Law and Justice

ISBN 10: 0309278902 / ISBN 13: 9780309278904

Editore: National Academies Press, 2013

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Riassunto:

Introduction -- Historical context -- Current practice in the juvenile justice system -- Adolescent development -- A framework for reform -- Preventing reoffending -- Accountability and fairness -- Reducing racial/ethnic disparities -- Achieving reform -- The federal role -- Moving forward -- Costs and benefits of juvenile justice interventions -- The Missouri model: a critical state of knowledge -- Mentoring.

Product Description: Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the Nationa

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Titolo: Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental ...
Casa editrice: National Academies Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback
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