Judging Children as Children makes a compelling argument for a better system of justice that recognizes the
mental, emotional, and physical abilities of young people and provides them with an opportunity to be rehabilitated
as productive members of society instead of being locked up in prisons.
Table of Contents
1 The proposition
2 The nature of adolescence
3 The criminal responsibility of juveniles
4 Sentencing children tried in adult courts
5 Our hardest-to-love children
6 Interactive justice
7 Fridays in the youth part
8 The experiment that failed
9 Creation of the youth part
10 The youth part model
11 A model juvenile justice system
12 Juvenile justice policy reform