Travers2012

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Travers2012
BibType BOOK
Key Travers2012
Author(s) Max Travers
Title The Sentencing of Children: Professional Work and Perspectives
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Law courts, Children, Professional practices
Publisher New Academia Publishing
Year 2012
Language English
City Washington, D.C.
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 249
URL Link
DOI
ISBN 978-0-9855698-7-7
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

This book provides a detailed description of how professional groups collaborate in reaching sentencing decisions in children’s courts.

Even when it does not lead to riots or looting, the problem of youth crime continues to concern welfare and justice professionals across the developed world. Following in the tradition of ethnographers, such as Aaron Cicourel and Robert Emerson, this book provides a detailed description of how professional groups collaborate in reaching sentencing decisions in children’s courts. Based on observation of hearings in the three Australian states of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales, it describes the practical considerations in sentencing minor, and repeat offenders, and the mitigating factors that influence magistrates. These include economic circumstances, family problems and psychological difficulties, but also youthfulness itself. The study conveys the immense institutional effort spent in trying to reduce or contain the problem of youth offending in a developed, well-ordered society, which we largely take for granted. It supplies a well-documented insight into what actually happens inside children's courts, and the challenges in addressing youth offending.

Notes