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Police Pursuing Justice

Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century

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Police Pursuing Justice

Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century

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Using the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a case-study, along with two other states as controls, this book examines how BARJ legislation “trickles down” to the law enforcement level through Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy (PJJSES) and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA). This legislation is a direct application of the BARJ model to law enforcement, essentially directing police discretion in the direction of informal dispositions. The decision to dispose formal action (such as, a referral to either juvenile court/probation, criminal court, or adult criminal court) or informal action (for instance, handling the situation within the department and/or releasing the juveniles to parents with a warning), play an integral role in determining which juveniles contact the justice system. To this end, while the overall focus of our volume and research is specifically on the impact of the PJJSES and its 2012 amendments on the number of formal dispositions of juvenile suspects by law enforcement officers, it speaks more broadly to the ability of the BARJ model to affect police officer behavior through influencing their decision-making processes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Primer on the Historical Development of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 2: Balanced and Restorative Justice
Chapter 3: Police and Discretion
Chapter 4: Our Questions and How We Answered Them
Chapter 5: BARJ and the Police in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Minnesota
Chapter 6: Does Legislation Matter? What it All Means.
Chapter 7: Policy and Behavior: Policing Juveniles in the 21st Century
Appendix A: Data Management
Appendix B: Change Scores
References
About the Authors

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Published Jun 08 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 128
ISBN 9781666911053
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations; 14 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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