General Textbooks

• Ellen Marrus and Irene Merker Rosenberg, Children and Juvenile Justice (Carolina Academic Press 2007)
• Sarah Ramsey and Douglas Abrams, Children and the Law in a Nutshell
• Barry Feld, Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell
• Martin Gardner, Understanding Juvenile Law
• Donald T. Kramer, Legal Rights of Children (1994)
• Samuel M. Davis, Rights of Juveniles: The Juvenile Justice System (2008)
• Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg, Rethinking Juvenile Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008)
• Michael Corriero, Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System

Selected Articles

• Janet Ainsworth, Re-imagining childhood and reconstructing the legal order: The case for abolishing the juvenile court, 69 North Carolina Law Review 1083 (1991).
• J. A. Arteaga, Juvenile injustice: Congressional attempts to abrogate the procedural rights of juvenile defendants, 102 Columbia Law Review 1051 (2002).
• Ellen Marrus, Can I Talk Now?: Why Miranda Does Not Offer Adolescents Adequate Protections, 79 Temp. L. Rev. 515 (2006).
• Ellen Marrus and Irene Merker Rosenberg, Roper v. Simmons and Strickland v. Washington: Dancing with Death, 42 Crim. L. Bull. 153 (2005).
• Ellen Marrus and Irene Merker Rosenberg, After Roper v. Simmons: Keeping Kids out of Adult Criminal Court, 42 San Diego L. Rev. 1151 (2005).
• Ellen Marrus, “That Isn’t Fair Judge”: The Costs of Using Prior Juvenile Delinquency Adjudications in Criminal Court Sentencing, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 1323 (2004).

Landmark Cases

• In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967).
• Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541 (1966).