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LAW AND CRIME

The Power of Understanding Juvenile Protecting Our Kids?
the Prosecutor Justice and Delinquency How Sex Offender Laws

Gatekeepers of the MARILYN D. MCSHANE AND Are Failing Us
Criminal Justice System MICHAEL CAVANAUGH, EDITORS EMILY HOROWITZ
JOAN E. JACOBY
AND EDWARD C. RATLEDGE

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> AWARD WINNER
“ Overall [the editors] are 2015 Outstanding Academic Title –Choice
“ valuable insights into the succinct, persuasive, and
Jacoby and Ratledge offer
provide compelling evidence
The author should be
shadowy world in which U.S. for their analysis and ideas. . “ applauded for her brave, well-
prosecutors ply their craft. . . . . . A significant contribution to researched stance. A highly
Recommended. All academic adolescent studies. ” readable book for criminal
” —Journal of Youth and Adolescence, justice and social science
levels/libraries.
—Choice, January 4, 2017 June 6, 2017 collections. Essential. All levels/
This book provides a comprehensive, libraries.
In this book, readers will take ”
a fascinating journey with local cutting-edge look at the problems that —Choice, November 2, 2015
prosecutors as they seek to obtain impact the way we conduct intervention This thought-provoking work raises
reasonable and appropriate case and treatment for youth in crisis important questions about sex offender
dispositions while preventing abuse and today—an indispensable resource for laws, drawing from personal stories,
misuse of the law and protecting the practitioners, students, researchers, research, and data to prove the policies
civil rights of their jurisdictions. policymakers, and faculty working in the
area of juvenile justice. promote fear, destroy lives, and fail to
protect children.
FEATURES
JOAN E. JACOBY is executive director • Provides insights into juvenile FEATURES
of the Jefferson Institute for Justice justice from contributors and editors
Studies. • Analyzes the sociohistorical context
who have extensive experience in surrounding the emergence of current
EDWARD C. RATLEDGE is the director teaching, researching, and writing on
of the Center for Applied Demography the subject draconian sex offender policies
& Survey Research and associate
professor in the School of Public Policy
and Administration, University of MARILYN D. MCSHANE, PhD, is EMILY HOROWITZ, PhD, is
Delaware, Newark, DE. chairperson and associate professor
professor of criminal justice at the of sociology and criminal justice at St.
University of Houston. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY.
MICHAEL CAVANAUGH, PhD, is assistant
professor in the Department of Criminal
Justice at the University of Houston.
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