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When juvenile violence and crime skyrocketed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, every state in the country responded by significantly altering the jurisdiction, purpose, process, sentencing, and services of their juvenile justice systems. Analyzing the history of juvenile justice over the last two hundred years, The Cycle of Juvenile Justice is an illuminating examination of the patterns in which changes like these play out. This much-needed and timely new edition provides an account of changes in the American juvenile justice system from 1990 to the present, and, by building on and expanding the ideas of the original edition, the authors refine their demonstration of how juvenile justice policy undergoes cycles of reform, alternating between offender-focused and offense-focused policies. All of the material from the previous edition has been revised and updated, and to incorporate recent key developments in juvenile justice, many new chapters have been added . Each of these provides historical context on each change, examining the rhetoric surrounding policies and their implementation, and assesses whether the policy and system changes resulted in a perpetuation of the cycle or represents real progress and reform. Analyzing the best and worst aspects of these policies, as well as the state of the present system, this book will continue to provide a controversial and challenging look at the issues involved in juvenile justice.

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• 1 Ideas and the Cycle of Juvenile Justice(p. 3)
• 2 What Stays the Same in History?(p. 10)
• 3 The Origin of Juvenile Delinquency(p. 33)
• 4 The Origin of Juvenile Justice: Juvenile Institutions(p. 48)
• 5 The Origin of Juvenile Justice: The Juvenile Court(p. 71)
• 6 The Supreme Court and Due Process(p. 95)
• 7 Due Process and Adjudication Hearings: An Idea That Didn't Sell(p. 122)
• 8 Disposition Hearings Today: The "Get Tough" Movement(p. 139)
• 9 Youths in the Adult System(p. 163)
• 10 Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-first Century(p. 187)
• 11 The Lessons of History Applied Today(p. 206)
• 12 The End of Juvenile Delinquency?(p. 232)
• Index(p. 237)

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CHOICE Review

The late Bernard (formerly, Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Kurlychek (Univ. at Albany, SUNY) argue in this fine book that consistent and sensible juvenile justice policy can only be accomplished by breaking the existing cycle and learning from, rather than romanticizing about, the past. They identify a three-stage cycle: first, there is a real or imagined sense among the public that juvenile crime rates are inordinately high--higher than in the "good old days"; second, there is a general conception that present policies have failed to address the problem and, in fact, have made matters worse; third, there is a push for "reform" in an effort to reduce juvenile crime. Juvenile crime rates fluctuate over time, as do rates for offenders in other age categories. As this would suggest, they eventually rise again; when they do, the cycle starts again. It has repeated in this fashion for over 200 years. In support of this argument, the book includes 12 chapters, each written in accessible, engaging prose and arranged in an especially organized fashion with a multitude of headings and subheadings to guide the reader through a systematic application of a refreshingly parsimonious model. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. B. K. Pinaire Lehigh University

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Thomas J. Bernard was Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice at Pennsylvania State University.
Megan C. Kurlychek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, SUNY.