Youth on Trial
A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice
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Youth on Trial
A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice
It is often said that a teen "old enough to do the crime is old enough to do the time," but are teens really mature and capable enough to participate fully and fairly in adult criminal court? In this book—the fruit of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice—a wide range of leaders in developmental psychology and law combine their expertise to investigate the current limitations of our youth policy. The first part of the book establishes a developmental perspective on juvenile justice; the second and third parts then apply this perspective to issues of adolescents’ capacities as trial defendants and questions of legal culpability. Underlying the entire work is the assumption that an enlightened juvenile justice system cannot ignore the developmental psychological realities of adolescence.
Not only a state-of-the-art assessment of the conceptual and empirical issues in the forensic assessment of youth, Youth on Trial is also a call to reintroduce sound, humane public policy into our justice system..
Contributors: Richard Barnum, Richard J. Bonnie, Emily Buss, Elizabeth Cauffman, Gary L. Crippen, Jeffrey Fagan, Barry C. Feld, Sandra Graham, Thomas Grisso, Colleen Halliday, Alan E. Kazdin, N. Dickon Reppucci, Robert G. Schwartz, Elizabeth Scott, Laurence Steinberg, Ann Tobey, Jennifer L. Woolard, Franklin E. Zimring
Not only a state-of-the-art assessment of the conceptual and empirical issues in the forensic assessment of youth, Youth on Trial is also a call to reintroduce sound, humane public policy into our justice system..
Contributors: Richard Barnum, Richard J. Bonnie, Emily Buss, Elizabeth Cauffman, Gary L. Crippen, Jeffrey Fagan, Barry C. Feld, Sandra Graham, Thomas Grisso, Colleen Halliday, Alan E. Kazdin, N. Dickon Reppucci, Robert G. Schwartz, Elizabeth Scott, Laurence Steinberg, Ann Tobey, Jennifer L. Woolard, Franklin E. Zimring
472 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2000
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Psychology: Developmental Psychology
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I:A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice
Introduction
1Developmental Psychology Goes to Court
2Adolescent Development, Mental Disorders, and Decision making of Delinquent Youths
Part II:Adolescents’ Capacities as Trial Defendants
Introduction
3Adjudicative Competence and Youthful Offenders
4Juveniles’ Waiver of Legal Rights:Confessions, Miranda, and the Right to Counsel
5What We Know about Youths’ Capacities as Trial Defendants
6Researching Juveniles’ Capacities as Defendants
7Clinical and Forensic Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial in Juvenile Defendants
8Youths’ Trial Participation as Seen by Youths and Their Attorneys: An Exploration of Competence-Based Issues
9The Role of Lawyers in Promoting Juveniles’ Competence as Defendants
Part III:Culpability and Youths’ Capacities
Introduction
10Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender:Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility
11Criminal Responsibility in Adolescence: Lessons from Developmental Psychology
12Researching Adolescents’ Judgment and Culpability
13The Social Cognitive(Attributional) Perspective on Culpability in Adolescent Offenders
14Contexts of Choice by Adolescents in Criminal Events
15Can the Courts Fairly Account for the Diminished Competence and Culpability of Juveniles? A Judge’s Perspective
Epilogue
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
Part I:A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice
Introduction
1Developmental Psychology Goes to Court
2Adolescent Development, Mental Disorders, and Decision making of Delinquent Youths
Part II:Adolescents’ Capacities as Trial Defendants
Introduction
3Adjudicative Competence and Youthful Offenders
4Juveniles’ Waiver of Legal Rights:Confessions, Miranda, and the Right to Counsel
5What We Know about Youths’ Capacities as Trial Defendants
6Researching Juveniles’ Capacities as Defendants
7Clinical and Forensic Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial in Juvenile Defendants
8Youths’ Trial Participation as Seen by Youths and Their Attorneys: An Exploration of Competence-Based Issues
9The Role of Lawyers in Promoting Juveniles’ Competence as Defendants
Part III:Culpability and Youths’ Capacities
Introduction
10Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender:Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility
11Criminal Responsibility in Adolescence: Lessons from Developmental Psychology
12Researching Adolescents’ Judgment and Culpability
13The Social Cognitive(Attributional) Perspective on Culpability in Adolescent Offenders
14Contexts of Choice by Adolescents in Criminal Events
15Can the Courts Fairly Account for the Diminished Competence and Culpability of Juveniles? A Judge’s Perspective
Epilogue
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
Awards
Society for Research on Adolescence: Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Award
Shortlist