Members of the Network have authored numerous articles, essays, and books on a wide range of topics concerning adolescent development and juvenile justice.  In addition,  the Network has sponsored the development of two interdisciplinary volumes:

Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice.
(Thomas Grisso & Robert Schwartz, editors)

The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court (Jeffrey Fagan & Franklin Zimring, editors)



Adolescent Development and Legal PolicyMonograph Series
University of Chicago Press

"Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with
Mental Disorders"
by Thomas Grisso

This monograph addresses the substantial overlap between emotional illness and serious delinquency, and the special difficulties of serving this large two-problem population in juvenile courts.


"An American Travesty: Legal Responses to
Adolescent Sexual Offending"
by Franklin Zimring

This monograph examines the special character of sexual offenses committed by children and adolescents, as well as appropriate legal system responses in sex cases.

Forthcoming in 2005:

Edited Volume
University of Chicago Press
Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Race and Ethnic Differences in American Criminal Justice
(Darnell Hawkins & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, editors)

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice