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Adolescent development and the regulation of youth crime

Paper examining the changing trends in the U.S. youth justice system since the end of the nineteenth century and arguing that a new model should be constructed for the 21st century based on the concept of placing young offenders in an intermediate category, separate from children and adults.

Details
Published: 
2008
Author: 
Elizabeth S. Scott
Laurence Steinberg
Publisher: 
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Brookings Institution