Introduction Part I Adolescence: Social Facts and Legal Theory one Childhood and Public Law before the Revolution two Modern Adolescence as a Learner's Permit three The Problem of Individual Variation Conclusion to Part I Part II - A Rationale for American Juvenile Justice four The Common Thread: Diversion in Juvenile Justice five Penal Proportionality for the Young Offender: Notes on Immaturity, Capacity, and Diminished Responsibility six The Central Mission of Separate Juvenile Courts Part III - The Adolescent Offender seven Kids, Groups and Crime eight Two Patterns of Age Progression nine American Youth Violence-A Cautionary Tale Part IV - Policy Problems in Modern Juvenile Justice ten Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification-How Should Juvenile Courts Respond? eleven Juvenile or Criminal Court? A Punitive Theory of Waiver twelve Reducing the Harms of Minority Overrepresentation in American Juvenile Justice thirteen Choosing a Coherent Policy toward Juveniles and Guns fourteen The Hardest of the Hard Cases: The Young Homicide Offender fifteen Strategy and Tactics in Juvenile Justice Reform Notes and References Index.