TY - BOOK AU - Barrett,Carla J. TI - Courting Kids: Inside an Experimental Youth Court T2 - Alternative Criminology SN - 9780814760048 AV - KFN6196 .B37 2013 U1 - 345.7471081 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, NY PB - New York University Press KW - Juvenile courts KW - New York (State) KW - New York County KW - New York KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Law & Crime KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction. An Experiment in Youth Justice --; CHAPTER ONE. Calendar Days in the Youth Part --; CHAPTER TWO. Creating the “Juvenile Offender” --; CHAPTER THREE. Rehabilitation, Youth Part Style --; CHAPTER FOUR. Individualized Justice in a Criminal Court --; CHAPTER FIVE. Managing Contradictions --; CHAPTER SIX. Judging the Court, Judging Transfer --; Conclusion. Kids Will Be Kids --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access N2 - Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults in New York City. Focusing on the lives of those coming through and working in the courtroom, Barrett’s ethnography is a study of a microcosm that reflects the costs, challenges, and consequences the “tough on crime” age has had, especially for male youth of color. She demonstrates how the court, through creative use of judicial discretion and the cultivation of an innovative courtroom culture, developed a set of strategies for handling “adult-juvenile ” cases that embraced, rather than denied, defendants’ adolescence UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814709467.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814760048 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814760048/original ER -