Overview
- Provides an overview of how the legal system approaches adolescents’ rights
- Introduces key social domains involving adolescents’ rights in the criminal justice system
- Presents multiple views of adolescents’ rights through leading Supreme Court cases
- Exposes striking gaps in the development of adolescents’ rights in the juvenile justice system
- Lays the foundation for developing adolescents’ rights in the justice system
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Child welfare and juvenile justice
- Constitutional law and adolescents
- Educational systems and adolescents
- Eighth Amendment, corporal punishment, adolescence
- Family systems and adolescents
- Fifth Amendment, interrogation, juveniles
- Fourteenth Amendment, youth, due process
- Health care systems and adolescents
- Juveniles, First Amendment, religious rights
- Media, adolescents, criminal justice
- Medical care, adolescents, informed consent
- Parental rights and juvenile offenders
- Parent-child relationships and juvenile justice
- Police and juvenile offenders
- Public health and juvenile justice
- Religious systems and adolescents
- Right to privacy and teenagers
- School settings and student constitutional rights
- Social services and juvenile justice
- Vulnerable youth and the criminal justice system
About this book
This textbook offers a foundation for understanding adolescents’ rights by articulating the complexity, breadth, and challenging nature of laws regulating adolescents. It showcases the Supreme Court’s key interpretations of the Constitution as it relates to adolescents’ rights. Chapters examine relevant legal systems and the social contexts that legal systems control. In addition, chapters discuss constitutional issues and their nuances through actual cases that often offer alternative interpretations of constitutional rules. The textbook guides readers through both well accepted and often ignored conceptions of adolescents’ rights. It offers readers unfamiliar with the law the tools they need to understand the importance of adolescents’ constitutional rights and how they can contribute to developing them.
Topics featured in this text include:
- The role of parents and family systems in conceptualizing adolescents’ rights.
- The complexities of providing health care to adolescents.
- Religious freedom and adolescents’ rights relating to religion.
- The flaws of child welfare systems.
- The challenge of developing rights specifically for juveniles and delinquent youth.
- Juvenile court systems and the differential treatment of adolescents.
- The difference between the juvenile court system and the criminal court system.
- Adolescents’ media rights.
Adolescents and Constitutional Law is an essential textbook for graduate students as well as a must-have reference for researchers/professors and related professionals in developmental psychology, juvenile justice/youth offending, social work, psychology and law, family studies, constitutional law, and other interrelated disciplines.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roger J.R. Levesque, J.D. (Columbia Law School), Ph.D. (Psychology, the University of Chicago), is professor of criminal justice and (affiliate) law at Indiana University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Prior to his current faculty position, he was Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Arizona. Dr. Levesque's research focuses on the legal regulation of families and the nature of children/adolescents' rights. In addition to having published numerous journal articles, Dr. Levesque is the author of thirteen books (and editor of one) dealing mainly with the nature family life and the laws that shape our intimate lives. His recent texts include The science and law of school segregation and diversity (Oxford 2017); Adolescence, privacy and the law: A developmental science perspective (Oxford 2016) and Adolescence, discrimination, and the law: Addressing dramatic shifts in equality jurisprudence (NYU 2015). His book Adolescents, Media, and the Law (Oxford University Press in 2007) won the outstanding book award from the American Law/Psychology Association and another, Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Law and Adolescence (NYU 2002) won the Society for the Study of Adolescence 2004 best authored book award. He also is editor of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2nd ed.) (Springer 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adolescents and Constitutional Law
Book Subtitle: Regulating Social Contexts of Development
Authors: Roger J. R. Levesque
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26639-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26638-7Published: 23 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26641-7Published: 23 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26639-4Published: 11 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 418
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Work