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Dealing With Serious, Repeat Juvenile Offenders - Report of a Conference, July 30-31, 1981, Washington, DC

NCJ Number
83887
Date Published
1981
Length
82 pages
Annotation
Conference reports look at the extent of juvenile offenses and how they are processed in the courts and recommend alternatives to juvenile court waiver and other traditional practices.
Abstract
Panelists (judges, prosecutors, and researchers) assert that juvenile crime is increasing in some areas and that juvenile offenders are treated too leniently in some courts. Serious, repeat juvenile offenders in adult institutions are often management problems and should be removed from these institutions. Most waived juveniles are never sent back to juvenile facilities from adult court, and legislatures are determining eligibility for waiver. Individual judges and prosecutors are in a better position to decide individual waiver cases than legislatures because they have access to critical case information. At the least, juveniles should be handled in a consistent manner and their rehabilitation emphasized. Further research on the treatment of serious, repeat juvenile offenders should be conducted. A list of conference participants, 14 references, and data on juvenile court waiver are presented.