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NCJ 184863
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| Title:
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Culpability and Youths' Capacities (From Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice, P 267-269, 2000, Thomas Grisso and Robert G. Schwartz, eds. -- See NCJ-184852)
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| Author(s):
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Thomas Grisso ; Robert G. Schwartz
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| Sale:
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University of Chicago Press
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Chicago, IL 60637-1496
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| Publication Date:
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2000 |
| Pages:
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3 |
| Type:
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Issue overviews |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Annotation:
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This is an introduction to six chapters that discuss issues
pertinent to how youths' developmental capacities relate to their
culpability regarding delinquent and criminal behavior. |
| Abstract:
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One chapter explores the logic for a proportionately different
legal response to youths' transgressions than that provided to
adults. The historical legal notion of culpability is discussed,
and the chapter introduces the social and psychological rationale
for a system of justice that recognizes youths' reduced
culpability as a matter of law and policy. This logic is
continued in another chapter, which more closely examines the
developmental and psychological characteristics of adolescence
that can inform policy regarding reduced culpability when
adolescents are accused of offenses. A third chapter examines
relevant research and describes additional research that will be
needed to provide a solid foundation for society's decisions
concerning whether to punish youths in a manner that presumes
their culpability to be adultlike. The remaining two chapters in
this section consider issues of culpability from specific
theoretical perspectives derived from developmental psychology,
social psychology, and sociology. Taken together, all of the
chapters in this section explore the developmental and social
psychological foundation upon which a legal policy of reduced
culpability could be based, and they identify what more must be
known in order to complete this foundation. |
| Main Term(s):
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Juvenile processing |
| Index Term(s):
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Criminal responsibility ; Juvenile courts ; Youth development ; Criminal intent ; Juvenile sentencing |
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