Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform

Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from juvenile court to criminal court. It focuses on the creation, implementation, and effects of waiver legislation that lowered the eligible age of criminal responsibility to thirteen for murder and fourteen for other violent offenses.

• | Author: Simon I. Singer
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 13, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521629209
• | ISBN-13: 9780521629201