Monday, March 21, 2011

FYiPOST: Notable new forthcoming book on juve crime and punishment

41vLLrbBgJL._SL500_AA300_ Professors Christopher Slobogin and Mark Fondacaro have a new forthcoming book on juvenile justice which is titled "Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice."   This is the abstract the authors have now posted on SSRN:

<snip>......

This book is especially timely in the wake of the Supreme Court's work last year in Graham v. Florida.  Though Graham involved constitutional limits on punishment, the ruling should be viewed by legislatures as a call to begin re-thinking the modern approach to juvenile crime and punishment more broadly.

Complete info at link below




Sent with MobileRSS HD


Sent from Kevin McGrew's iPad
Kevin McGrew, PhD
Educational Psychologist