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...Sara Mogulescu; Gaspar Caro Abstract This article was originally published by the Vera Institute of Justice in December 2008. Until recently, youth who may be chronically disobedient but not committing crime were frequently referred to juvenile court and subject to the same punitive interventions...

... with the historical treatment of juveniles. The doctrine partly stems from recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Roper v. Simmons (2005) abolished the juvenile death penalty.4 Graham v. Florida (2010) abolished life without parole categorically for juveniles in non-homicide cases.5 Miller v. Alabama (2012) held...

...John F. Stinneford © The Ohio State University Evolving Away from Evolving Standards of Decency In Graham v. Florida,1 the Supreme Court held that imposing a life sentence without possibility of parole on a juvenile nonhomicide offender violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause...

...) 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 In 2005, crime rates were 26% lower than they were in 1980. 2005 * Taxpayer costs include all costs related to the criminal justice system: police, courts, prosecutors, public defenders, and local and state juvenile and adult corrections. Crime rates measure serious felony...

... juvenile courts, which took the nation by storm in the early 1900s, not at all unlike how the drug court movement is spreading today. Juvenile courts, like drug courts, were founded on the assumption that their target defendants suffered from a curable 204 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 29, NO. 4...

... rehabilitation were AmericaÕs juvenile courts, which took the nation by storm in the early 1900s, not at all unlike how the drug court movement is spreading today. Juvenile courts, like drug courts, were founded on the assumption that their target defendants suffered from a curable sociological diseaseÑin...

... Trial Court colleagues, law enforcement partners, and members of the Judiciary. All Prosecutors will request a 60-day continuance in cases in which the individual charged with a crime is not in custody. This request will include the Boston Municipal Court, the Chelsea District Court, the Juvenile Courts...

..., frequent and early offending is associated with a longer, more serious, criminal career.2 At the same time, however, the juvenile adjudication process differs from adult criminal conviction in key ways.3 First, the juvenile court was established as a separate entity from the adult court with the express...

... the reasonable doubt standard. Nor does the model contemplate an adjudication in which no right to jury trial exists, such as a proceeding in a military court, a juvenile court, an ordinary court of law in which the defendant is charged with a petty offense, or a non-jury foreign tribunal. Assuming...

.... In consultation with a group of external experts,15 NCAJ translated these principles into seventeen concrete policy benchmarks we think every U.S. state should be able to meet, framed around the following real-world policy goals: States should abolish all user fees, and in juvenile courts they should also...

... Juvenile Courts. The of ce employs some 300 people and offers a wide range of services and programs to serve anyone who comes in contact with the criminal justice system. This of ce is committed to educating the public about the services we provide, our commitment to crime prevention, and our dedication...

... and vacated convictions: After a one-year waiting period, non-conviction records (including non-adjudication records in juvenile cases), and records of convictions vacated on appeal may be expunged and sealed by the circuit or superior court in the county where the charges were led, or, if no charges were...

... available about the family court s juvenile detention decision-making process and, therefore, no empirically based way to predict which youth would do well in the community and which youth posed enough risk to require detention. The city recognized this dilemma as an opportunity to develop an empirically...

... for inmate health and mental health. Federal judges control inmate medical care and oversee mental health, use of force, disabilities act compliance, dental care, and parolee due process rights; a state court oversees most aspects of the juvenile justice system. Californians can justifiably ask what...

... them at great risk of assault and even death in prison, and results in their committing more crime, particularly violent crime, as compared to young offenders handled in juvenile courts.5 One can easily see why this is true when the juvenile system is compared with the adult system. The juvenile system...

... in similar predicaments, it seems likely that reforms will target several areas: (a) expanding the use of diversion programs, such as drug courts, juvenile courts, veterans courts, and community transition programs for low-level or first-time offenders; (b) increasing the number of nonviolent offenders...

... enough jobs or programs available for the surplus inmates. The courts intervened, and by the time Gov. Schwarzenegger was sworn in, nearly all aspects of the state s prison, parole, and juvenile justice operations were governed by consent decrees based on federal and state court litigation.3 More than...

... spring, Congress passed the Second Chance Act of 2007.17 Section 111 creates a grant program within the Department of Justice to fund reentry courts. State and local adult and juvenile court systems may receive up to $500,000 to establish and maintain reentry courts. Applicants must present a long-term...

... in the midst of a push by reformers to move more young offenders into that system and out of the adult system. In 1995, 134 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 30, NO. 2 DECEMBER 2017 as part of the broader tough-on-crime trends of the late twentieth century, the maximum age for prosecution in juvenile court...

... but are instead routinely reappointed by the Governor and conÞrmed by the General Assembly. Fourth, the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court ends at a childÕs sixteenth birthday. All sixteen- and seventeenyear olds are prosecuted in adult courts for all offenses and serve their sentences in adult prisons. Fifth...