Table of contents:

Part I. Western Europe
Frieder Dünkel Juvenile Justice and Crime Policy in Europe Tapio Lappi-Seppälä Juvenile Justice Without a Juvenile Court: A Note on Scandinavian Exceptionalism

Part II. Major Understudied Systems
Weijian Gao The Development and Prospect of Juvenile Justice in the People’s Republic of China Ved Kumari Juvenile Justice in India Mary Beloff and Máximo Langer Myths and Realities of Juvenile Justice in Latin America Lena Salaymeh Juvenile Justice in Muslim-Majority States

Part III. The Relationship between Political Change and Juvenile Justice: Three Case Studies
Barbara Stando-Kawecka Juvenile Justice in Poland Ann Skelton Freedom in the Making: Juvenile Justice in South Africa Jae-Joon Chung Legislative Impact, Political Change, and Juvenile Detention: Comparing South Korea and Japan

Part IV. Some Theoretical Implications
Franklin E. Zimring and Máximo Langer One Theme or Many? The Search for a Deep Structure in Global Juvenile Justice