Barry Feld is Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He has written five books
and more than three dozen law review and criminology articles on juvenile justice administration with special emphases
on serious offenders, procedural justice, and youth sentencing policy.
Review
"...compelling...he does...correctly identify the conceptual flaw in a system."
--Juvenile Justice Update
Oxford University Press Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book explores the social and legal changes that have
transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a
scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime
to explain both the Supreme Court decision to provide delinquents with procedural justice and the more recent political
impetus to "get tough" on young offenders. This provocative book will be necessary reading for criminal
and juvenile justice scholars, sociologists, legislators, and juvenile justice personnel.
Looks at the role race plays in the juvenile court
Proposes radical reforms of the juvenile justice system
