Courting Kids: Inside an Experimental Youth Court

by Carla J. Barrett

Book Overview

Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814709451
• ISBN13: 9780814709450
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"