Screwing the System Making it Work Juvenile Justice in the NoFault Society

Name: Screwing the System Making it Work Juvenile Justice in the NoFault Society
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Screwing the System Making it Work Juvenile Justice in the NoFault Society\nby Mark D. Jacobs\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mark D. Jacobs\nTitle: Screwing the System Making it Work Juvenile Justice in the NoFault Society\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Crime and criminology\nPublisher: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226389806\nISBN-10: 0226389804\nRRP: \u00A380.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWho is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and exceptional cases, he reveals that probation officers must commonly contrive informal measures to circumvent a system which.