"Written as a case study in juvenile justice reform, Recriminalizing Delinquency provides a detailed and insightful account of a controversial legislative enactment, its background, content, intent, and impact....through this ambitious design, Singer has clearly set an agenda for subsequent research that should provide an opportunity for new and important insights to be obtained about the juvenile justice reform process." Troy L. Armstrong, American Journal of Sociology

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Recriminalizing violent juvenile crime; 2. Taking stock of juvenile justice reforms; 3. Recriminalization on the move and its legal rules; 4. Contextual and legal reasons for identifying juveniles as criminal offenders; 5. The case processing of juvenile offenders: from arrest to disposition; 6. Recriminalization and organizing for deterrence; 7. Convicted juvenile offenders in a maximum security institution; 8. Concluding 'real' reasons for recriminalizing delinquency; Appendices; Notes.