Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective

Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He has served on the National Academy of Science Panels on Violence, Deterrence, and Juvenile Justice and as director of research of the Task Force on Violence of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He has written on issues of youth crime and sentencing policy, penal confinement and the restraint of crime, and gun- and drug-control policy. Recent books include An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sex Offending (2004), American Juvenile Justice (2005), The Great American Crime... More About Author

Máximo Langer is Professor of Law at UCLA and a leading authority on domestic, comparative, and international criminal law and procedure. He regularly lectures in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States on criminal law and procedure issues. His work has been translated into Chinese, German, and Spanish and has received awards from different professional associations, including the 2007 Hessel Yntema Prize by the American Society of Comparative Law, the 2007 Margaret Popkin Award by the Latin American Studies Association, and the 2012 Deák Prize by the American Society of International Law. He also serves on several editorial... More About Author

David S. Tanenhaus is Professor of History and James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies one of the fundamental and recurring problems in the history of law and society— how to treat the young. His books include Juvenile Justice in the Making (2004) and The Constitutional Rights of Children: In re Gault and Juvenile Justice (2011). He coedited, with Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, and Bernardine Dohrn, A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002). He also served as Editor in Chief of The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008). More About Author