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Berkeley Law Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 1-1-2010 The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer: A Mildly Revisioni t Hi tory of the 1990 Franklin E. Zimring Berkeley L aw Follow this and additional works at : /facpubs Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Franklin E. Zimring, The Power Politics of Ju enile Court Transfer: A Mildly R e isionist History of t he 1990s, 71 La. L. Re . 1 (2010), Available at : /facpubs/1415 This Article is brought to you for ree and open access by Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact jcera@. The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer: A Mildly Revisionist History of the 1990s FranklinE. Zimring* The boundary between the juvenile courts delinquency jurisdiction and the adult criminal process should be an obvious fault line in courts, academics, and state legislatures. What are and what should be the differences in emphasis between a court for seventeen-year-old burglars and a court that claims jurisdiction over those with identical charges but earlier dates of birth? The discussion of what justifies separate treatment for adolescent offenders should be an important and jurisprudentially thick discourse, but it is not. Regardless of the general age boundaries imposed by state legislation between juvenile and criminal court, special proceedings are available to transfer youth under the usual age threshold from juvenile to criminal court.2 Even if general rules such as maximum jurisdictional age are rarely influenced by extensive analysi