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Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court since the early 1970s, from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both the Supreme Court decisions to provide delinquents with procedural justice and the more recent political impetus to ""get tough"" on young offenders.
