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Rethinking Juvenile Justice

Rethinking Juvenile Justice

Laurence D Steinberg, Elizabeth S. Scott, Distinguished University Professor and Laura H Carnell Professor of Psychology Laurence Steinberg, PH D — 2008
What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
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