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Notable new forthcoming book on juve crime and punishment

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to see that Professors Christopher Slobogin and Mark Fondacaro have a new forthcoming book on juvenile justice which is titled "?Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice."  I am also pleased to have discovered that the first chapter of this forthcoming book is now available via SSRN here. This is the abstract the authors have now posted on SSRN: The current approach to the juvenile crime problem is insufficiently conceptualized and too beholden to myths about youth, the crimes they commit, and effective means of responding to their problems. The currently dominant punitive approach to juvenile justice, modeled on the adult criminal justice system, either ignores or misapplies current knowledge about the causes of juvenile crime and the means of reducing it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).