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Police Pursuing Justice
Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century
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2023
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1105-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1106-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
108
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
A Primer on the Historical Development of Juvenile Justice No access Pages 1 - 14
Balanced and Restorative Justice No access Pages 15 - 26
Police and Discretion No access Pages 27 - 38
Our Questions and How We Answered Them No access Pages 39 - 48
BARJ and the Police in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Minnesota No access Pages 49 - 56
Does Legislation Matter? What It All Means No access Pages 57 - 70
