Judging children as children : a proposal for a juvenile justice system

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Title:

Judging children as children : a proposal for a juvenile justice system

Author:

Corriero, Michael A.

ISBN:

9781592131686

9781592131693

Personal Author:

Corriero, Michael A.

Publication Information:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple Unversity Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xix, 212 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

The proposition -- The nature of adolescence -- The criminal responsibility of juveniles -- Sentencing children tried in adult courts -- Our hardest to love children -- Interactive justice -- Fridays in the Youth Part / Caroline Joy DeBrovner -- The experiment that failed -- Creation of the Youth Part -- The Youth Part model -- A model juvenile justice system -- Juvenile justice policy reform.

Subject Term:

Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.

Juvenile corrections -- United States.

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Summary

At a time when America's court system increasingly tries juvenile offenders as adults, Michael Corriero draws directly from his experience as the founding judge of a special juvenile court to propose a new approach to dealing with youthful offenders.

Since 1992, Judge Corriero has presided over the Manhattan Youth Part, a New York City court specifically designed to discipline teenage offenders. Its guiding principles, clearly laid out in this book, are that children are developmentally different from adults and that a judge can be a formidable force in shaping the lives of children who appear in court.

"Judging Children as Children" makes a compelling argument for a better system of justice that recognizes the mental, emotional, and physical abilities of young people and provides them with an opportunity to be rehabilitated as productive members of society instead of being locked up in prisons.