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A large part of law-in-action involves a process of reasoning in which people consider whether a behavior is right or wrong, legal or illegal, and weigh the fairness of law enforcement and the justice of legal outcomes. For the most part, social science has ignored this process of reasoning when examining the nexus between youth and justice, choosing instead to focus on explaining juvenile delinquent behavior or describing the operation of the justice system or measuring system outcomes. That reasoning is part of the nexus between youth and justice has not been denied. The challenge has been to design quality research with which to test the hypothesis.
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White, S.O. (2001). Reasoning and Justice. In: White, S.O. (eds) Handbook of Youth and Justice. The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1289-9_16
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