Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice

by Darnell F. Hawkins

In Our Children, Their Children, a prominent team of researchers argues that a second-rate and increasingly punitive juvenile justice system is allowed to persist because most people believe it is designed for children in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups. While public opinion, laws, and social policies that convey distinctions between "our children" and "their children" may seem to conflict with the American ideal of blind justice, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226319881
• ISBN13: 9780226319889
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"