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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15308350973
EAN num: 9780226983578
ISBN number: 0226983579
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Page Count: 216
Printing Date: June 30, 2004
Publishing house: University Of Chicago Press
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An American Travesty is the very first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses the 'American travesty' noted in title—our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult.
This book is a summary of what we know about adolescent sex offenders, and a much-needed indictment of the legal system's ability to make appropriate decisions concerning young sexual offenders, and a call for specific reforms. Zimring shows that current policy toward young sex offenders is rarely based on facts and is often the result of and false judgements. Assumptions about juvenile sex offenders in current legislation and debate are often based only on the motives and inclinations of adult offenders. But seventy-five years' worth of empirical data show that such assumptions are wrong. After surveying the facts and outlining the additional information needed for rational policy, this book proposes a series of reforms in juvenile and criminal courts as well as sex offender registration laws. As such, An American Travesty's compelling argument will inform policymakers, lawyers, criminologists, psychologist, psychiatrists, social workers, and others trying to address the problem of the young sexual offender.
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I am not one of the "policymakers, lawyers, criminologists, psychologist[s], psychiatrists, [or] social workers" to whom this book is addressed, but an ordinary citizen who is concerned about the mean-spiritedness and vindictiveness currently rampant in America. From this perspective, Professor Zimring's book is absolutely eye opening. I have no doubt that it is the most important recent work in its field.
Having said that much, I must add that this is an expensive, cloth-bound-only scholarly work that seems to have benefited from no editing whatsoever. Most, but not all, adjective phrases are unhyphenated (a dead giveaway); questionable and clearly incorrect usage is left intact; and, in at least a dozen instances, verbs do not agree with their subjects in number. This shabby performance by the University of Chicago Press reflects the current state of academic publishing in the United States.
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