Bøger af Franklin E. Zimring

Analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. This book discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders.

Suitable for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence, this book focuses on the principles and policy of a distinct system of juvenile justice. It opens with an introduction of the creation of adolescence, presenting a justification for the category of the juvenile or a period of partial responsibility before full adulthood.

This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s. The book, which shows a United States pursuing an active execution policy, is an original and compelling contribution to the discussion of the future of the death penalty.