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Conceptualizing Legal Childhood In The Twenty-First Century, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott

Michigan Law Review

The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary authority over children, subject to limited state oversight, has broken down over the past few decades. Lawmakers started granting children some adult rights and privileges, raising questions about their traditional status as vulnerable, dependent, and legally incompetent beings. As children emerged as legal persons, children’s rights advocates challenged the rationale for parental authority, contending that robust parental rights often harm children. And a wave of punitive reforms in response to juvenile crime in the 1990s undermined …

Exhibits To Accompany Testimony & Statement Of Dean Hill Rivkin Before The Senate Judiciary Committee (21 April 2015), Dean H. Rivkin

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

Exhibits to accompany testimony and statement-of-record of Professor Dean Hill Rivkin (The University of Tennessee College of Law), as submitted on April 21, 2015, before a hearing convened by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary: “Improving Accountability and Oversight of Juvenile Justice Grants.”

Juvenile Justice In Transition , Julian C. Dixon

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Schiff-Cárdenas Crime Prevention Act Of 2000 (Ab 1913): Reports From Counties On Implementation, Assembly Select Committee On Juvenile Justice

California Assembly

No abstract provided.

Subcommittee On Juvenile Justice: Summary Of Public Hearings, Assembly Committee On Public Safety

California Assembly

Summary of public hearings held on March 29, 1996, April 1, 1996, April 4, 1996.

Document includes: Reforming the Juvenile Justice System: The Prosecutor's Perspective on Juvenile Justice Reform, by the California District Attorneys Association (1996).

Summary Of Significant Juvenile Justice Assembly Bills Passed By The Public Safety Committee, Assembly Public Safety Committee, Subcommittee On Juvenile Justice

California Assembly

No abstract provided.