Description: This groundbreaking study goes inside France's juvenile court system and follows young people, largely of foreign ancestry, from arrest to court trials, revealing an alarming shift in the nation's approach to its youth offenders.
Review Quotes: "This compelling, clear account speaks directly from the French case to current debates about how far we wish to penalize juvenile behavior, and does so based on first-hand study of judges and courts in France. Terrio's book sets a new standard for analytically sharp and ethnographically rich studies of judging in European societies."--John Bowen "Washington University in St. Louis"