Desert, Punishment, and Criminal Responsibility
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Youthfulness, responsibility and punishment Admonishing adolescents in criminal court
This article describes interaction in a criminal (adult) court in which adolescents are punished. As a result of the particular set of courtroom dynamics and the youthfulness of the defendants in this court, two potentially conflicting ideas about punishment are expressed concurrently: (1) proportionality, and (2) reduced culpability among youth. I demonstrate how judges talk to adolescent defe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Law and Contemporary Problems
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0023-9186
DOI: 10.2307/1191625