Accountable to what?: Professional orientations towards accountability-based juvenile justice

Punishment and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-109

  Ward, Geoff ^a   Kupchik, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Juvenile justice; Juvenile responsibility; System responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849166092     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474508098134     Document Type: Article

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