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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 224 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the United States, adolescents are routinely transferred out of juvenile court and into adult criminal court without any judicial oversight. Once in adult court, children can be sentenced without regard for their youth. Juveniles are housed in adult correctional facilities, they may be held in solitary confinement, and they experience the highest rates of sexual and physical assault among inmates. Until 2005, children convicted in America's courts...
4) Juvenile
Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
approximately 160 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A parent's worst nightmare.A lawyer's biggest challenge.A young boy's life on the line.The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity—a sensational trial that will catapult him into the D.A.'s...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month. One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk--once again--with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 364 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
There has been very little written about juvenile detention and the path to justice. For many kids, a mistake made at age thirteen or fourteen-often resulting from external factors coupled with a biologically immature brain-can resonate through the rest of their lives, making high school difficult, college nearly impossible, and a middle-class life a mere fantasy. Here, in Children of the State, Jeff Hobbs challenges any preconceived perceptions about...
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