... that ["....the flaw with the criminal justice system lies in the very idea that the juvenile court can successfully combine criminal social control and social welfare in one system" (p. 328). Feld's centers his complaint upon the contention that "a separate juvenile version of a criminal court cannot succeed or long survive, because it lacks a coherent rationale to distinguish it from the real criminal court" (p. 328). He calls for more determinate sentencing guidelines grounded in accountability and punishment. This paradigm shift Feld calls for is quite distinct from what the Progressives had envisioned. His epistemological premise presents an ethical argument that coincides with sentencing disparities and the irrational nature of the current juvenile justice system, which is inherently, systematically unfair at times, and, therefore, according to Feld, irrational. He is not calling for the reconstruction of the juvenile justice system but its total abolishment. While many of Feld's ...

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