Incarcerating Juveniles Into Adulthood: Organizational Fields of Knowledge and the Back End of Waiver

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-127

  Singer, Simon I ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

long term incarceration; sentencing juvenile murderers; waiver

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247448594     PISSN: 15412040     EISSN: 15569330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541204002250871     Document Type: Article

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