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100 1 $aZimring, Franklin E.
245 13 $aAn American travesty :$blegal responses to adolescent sexual offending /$cFranklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen.
260 $aChicago, Ill. :$bUniversity of Chicago Press ;$aBristol :$bUniversity Presses Marketing [distributor],$c2009.
300 $ax, 195 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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490 0 $aAdolescent development and legal policy
500 $aOriginally published: 2004.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe juvenile sex offender -- Three case studies -- Continuity and change in American sex-crime policy -- The juvenile sex offender -- The emergence of juvenile sex-offender treatment -- Principles and policies -- The sex offender in juvenile court -- Reform in juvenile court -- Registration, community notification, and juvenile sex offenders: resolving policy conflicts -- Statutory provisions concerning indecent sexual contact with minors -- Topics in sex-offender treatment -- Research on sex-offender recidivism.
520 $aAn American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult. "An opinionated, articulate, and forceful ...
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