Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System

Book Overview

Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and or transferring into the adult criminal justice system. Justice for Kids is a volume of work by leading academics and activists that focuses on ways to intervene at the earliest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479832952
• ISBN13: 9781479832958
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"