The Social Construction of "Sophisticated" Adolescents

How Judges Integrate Juvenile and Criminal Justice Decision-Making Models

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365263
AutoresAlexes Harris (0000-0002-5098-7355, University of Washington, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume37
Fascículo4
Páginas469-506
Data de publicação2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241607309886
OpenAlexW2158963635
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas50

This study investigates the types of decision-making models that frame people-processing decisions. An analysis of the judicial waiver hearing will be used as an example of such institutional processing. I investigate how decision makers engage in practical reasoning by exploring the methods they use to organize information about youth and accomplish their judicial duties. Observational and interview data from a case study of three juvenile courthouses in a California county are used to investigate official case processing. The study offers three important theoretical insights for research in sociology and criminology; a revised theoretical framework for understanding juvenile justice decision making that incorporates criminal justice frameworks, an analysis of how substantive factors (e.g., values, stereotypes, assumptions) can enter into decision making, and an illustration of how decision making is organizationally situated

Criminology · Economic Justice · Frame (networking · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Sociology · Waiver · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence