This volume brings together scholars and practitioners from the US and Europe specializing in juvenile justice alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights issues in developing countries or countries in transition. The book presents two types of papers: descriptive and analytical academic papers on whole systems of juvenile justice or aspects of those systems (aftercare, restorative justice, etc.), and papers which deal with efforts to promote reform through international activity and through efforts to utilize modern theory in national reforms in developing...