Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Criminalizing the American Juvenile Court, 17 Crime and Justice 197 (1993), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Centennary: Social Structure, Race, and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court, 1 Punishment & Society 187 (1999)
– The Politics of Race and Juvenile Justice: The "Due Process Revolution" and the Conservative Reaction, 20 Justice Quarterly 765 (2003)
– The Decision to Seek Criminal Charges: Just Deserts and the Waiver Decision, 3 Criminal Justice Ethics 27 (1984)
– Criminalizing the Juvenile Court: A Juvenile Justice Research Agenda for the 1990's, in Juvenile Justice and Public Policy: Toward a National Agenda (Ira Schwartz, ed., Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992)
– The Juvenile Court, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
– A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure and Inmate Subcultures in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders, 27 Crime & Delinquency 336 (1981), reprinted in The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency (Ronald J. Berger, ed., Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1991) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– Race and the Changing Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice: A Tale in Two Parts, 1950-2000, in Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice (Darnell Hawkins & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2005)
– The Punitive Juvenile Court and the Quality of Procedural Justice: Disjunctions Between Rhetoric and Reality, 36 Crime & Delinquency 443 (1990)
– The Social Context of Juvenile Justice Administration: Racial Disparities in an Urban Juvenile Court, in Minorities in Juvenile Justice (Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Carl Pope & William Feyerherm, eds., Sage Publications, 1995)
– Legislative Exclusion of Offenses from Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: A History and Critique, in The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court 83 (Jeffrey Fagan & Franklin Zimring, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2000)
– Race, Youth Violence, and the Changing Jurisprudence of Waiver, 19 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 3 (2001)
– In re: Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court, 34 Crime & Delinquency 393 (1988), reprinted in Exploring Delinquency: Causes and Control (Dean Rojek & Gary Jensen, eds., Roxbury Publishing Company, 1995) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– Juvenile (In) Justice and the Criminal Court Alternative, 39 Crime & Delinquency 403 (1993), reprinted in The Juvenile Court: Dynamic, Dysfunctional, or Dead? (Center for the Study of Youth Policy, 1993), in Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective (Ralph Weisheit & Robert Culbertson, eds., Waveland, 4th ed., 2000), in Criminal Courts for the 21st Century (Lisa Stolzenberg & Stewart D'Alessio, eds., Prentice Hall, 1st ed., 1999; 2d ed., 2002), and in Essential Readings in Juvenile Justice (David Parry, ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005)
– The Honest Politician's Guide to Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 564 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 10 (1999)
– Purposes and Functions of Sentencing, 34 Crime and Justice 1-53 (2006), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Crime Does Not Cause Punishment: The Impact of Sentencing Policy on Levels of Crime, 20 SA Crime Quarterly 13-20 (2007)
– Punishment Policies and Patterns in Western Countries, in Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Michael Tonry & Richard S. Frase, eds., Oxford University Press, 2001), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Foreword, in Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Cyrus Tata & Neil Hutton, eds., Ashgate, 2002)
– Violent Girls or Relabeled Status Offenders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Data, 55 Crime & Delinquency 241 (2009)
– The Death Penalty in the United States, in Zwischen Mediation und Lebenslang: Neue Wege in der Kriminalitätsbekämpfurg (Volker Dittmar, André Kuhn, Renie Maag & Hans Wiprächtiger, eds., Verlag Rüegger, 2002)
– Varieties of Youth Justice, 31 Crime and Justice 1-20 (2004)
– The Functions of Sentencing and Sentencing Reform, 58 Stanford Law Review 37-66 (2005)
– Criminology, Mandatory Minimums, and Public Policy, 5 Criminology and Public Policy 45-56 (2006)
– Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands, 35 Crime and Justice 1-30 (2007)
– Foreword, in Hans Boutellier, Crime and Morality: The Significance of Criminal Justice in Post-Modern Culture (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)
– Foreword, in David A. Green, When Children Kill: Penal Populism and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2008)
– Punishment Policies and Politics in America, in Invitation to Corrections (Clemens Bartollas, ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2001)
– Reconsidering Sentencing and Punishment in England and Wales, in Reform and Punishment: The Future of Sentencing (Sue A. Rex & Michael Tonry, eds., Willan, 2002)
– Is Sentencing in England and Wales Institutionally Racist?, in Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour (Michael Tonry, ed., Willan, 2003)