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Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform

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Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform - Singer, Simon I.
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Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from juvenile court to criminal court. It focuses on the creation, implementation, and effects of waiver legislation that lowered the eligible age of criminal responsibility to thirteen for murder and fourteen for other violent offenses. In ...

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Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521629201

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Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521482080

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