Everyone Studying Juvenile Justice Must Read This Important Book [jjie.org]

Alicia Doktor 7/12/184:00 AM

Hallelujah!

It’s about time someone wrote a book that informs readers about the unadulterated truth of how we treat kids in America. It isn’t flattering, and worse, the future doesn’t look promising despite reform movements peppered across our nation.

In his book “The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice,” Professor Barry C. Feld employs a historical approach coupled with a prolific blending of artistic and technical prose to convey that policymakers have allowed social structural change factors like the economy, race and ethnicity, urbanization and politics to influence how kids should be treated as opposed to doing what is in their best interest.

[For more on this story by Judge Steven Teske, go to https://jjie.org/2018/07/05/ev...this-important-book/]

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