An American travesty : legal responses to adolescent sexual offending / Franklin E. Zimring ; foreword by Francis A. Allen.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Adolescent development and legal policy.
Main Author: Zimring, Franklin E.
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Series:Adolescent development and legal policy.
Subjects:
Teenage sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Sex crimes > United States.
Juvenile courts > United States.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Three case studies
  • Continuity and change in American sex-crime policy
  • The juvenile sex offender
  • The emergence of juvenile sex-offender treatment
  • 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.