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Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration

NCJ Number
188831
Author(s)
Barry C. Feld
Date Published
2000
Length
942 pages
Annotation
This casebook presents and discusses several hundred cases and judicial decisions related to the investigation and processing of juvenile offenders, including both juvenile delinquents and juvenile status offenders.
Abstract
The book is intended for use with a course, seminar, or clinic on young offenders and juvenile justice administration. The first chapter provides an overview of the origins and current operation of the juvenile justice system, including the United States Supreme Court decision in In re Gault and its mandate of procedural safeguards in delinquency cases and its shifting the formal focus of juvenile courts from needs to legal guilt. Subsequent chapters examine juvenile court jurisdiction over juvenile delinquents and juvenile status offenders, as well as pretrial procedures related to school searches; student drug testing; consent searches; pretrial interrogation of juveniles; and confidentiality issues related to lineups and photographs, fingerprints and other records, and pretrial publicity. Additional chapters focus on intake screening and diversion of juveniles, restorative justice, procedural safeguards at intake, the filing of charges, the right to bail, pretrial detention, juvenile detention procedures, and detaining juveniles in adult jails. Further chapters focus on juvenile court waiver and sentencing policy issues, judicial waiver procedures and evidence, legislative offense exclusion, prosecutorial direct filing, reverse certification, the criminal court careers of transferred juveniles, sentencing of juveniles as adults, and juvenile capital punishment. Further chapters focus on juveniles’ procedural rights at trial and disposition decisions, including indeterminate and non-proportional delinquency dispositions, issues of treatment versus punishment, conditions of confinement, and the disposition of juvenile status offenders. Footnotes, index, and table of cases