Rethinking Juvenile Justice

by Laurence Steinberg (Author), C . James (Author), ElizabethS.Scott (Author), Claude (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $34.62

  What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals? This book argues that juvenile justice should be grounded in the psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development.