Courting Kids: Inside an Experimental Youth Court

Readers will gain a sense of the history and initial purpose of the juvenile court, an understanding of the impact of accountability-based public policies, the tools used to facilitate accountability, such as legislative and judicial waivers, and the research that, to date, has found that these policies have not necessarily reduced recidivism or deterred criminal conduct. [...]Courting Kids is not just about youth and a specialized court in New York; it is about all youth, everywhere.