Part IV. On strategy and tactics in juvenile justice reform. Childhood and public law before the Revolution -- Modern adolescence as a learner's permit -- The problem of individual variation -- Part II. A rationale for American juvenile justice -- The common thread : diversion in juvenile justice -- Penal proportionality for the young offender : notes on immaturity, capacity, and diminished responsibility -- The central mission of separate juvenile courts -- Part III. The adolescent offender -- Kids, groups, and crime : some implications of a well-known secret -- Two patterns of age progression in adolescent crime -- American youth violence : a cautionary tale -- Part IV. Policy problems in modern juvenile justice -- Sex offender registration and community notification : how should juvenile courts respond? -- Juvenile or criminal court? : a punitive theory of waiver -- Reducing the harms of minority overrepresentation in American juvenile justice -- Choosing a coherent policy toward juveniles and guns -- The hardest of the hard cases : the young homicide offender -- On strategy and tactics in juvenile justice reform.
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