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Adjudicatory And Dispositional Decision Making In Juvenile Justice, Richard E. Redding
Adjudicatory And Dispositional Decision Making In Juvenile Justice, Richard E. Redding
Richard E. Redding
Juvenile court judges and others working in the juvenile justice system have a wide variety of dispositional and sentencing options available for the juvenile offenders under their jurisdiction. For serious, violent or chronic offenders, these options increasingly involve transferring juveniles from juvenile court for trial and sentencing in the criminal court as well as blended juvenile and adult sentences. This chapter provides an overview of the adjudicatory and dispositional options available for handling juvenile offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The research on adjudicatory and dispositional decision making is reviewed, and directions for future law and policy development …
What Do Juvenile Offenders Know About Being Tried As Adults? Implications For Deterrence, Richard E. Redding
What Do Juvenile Offenders Know About Being Tried As Adults? Implications For Deterrence, Richard E. Redding
Richard E. Redding
An underlying assumption in the nationwide policy shift toward transferring more juveniles to criminal court has been the belief that stricter, adult sentences will act as either a specific or general deterrent to juvenile crime. With respect to general deterrence - whether transfer laws deter would-be offenders from committing crimes - it is important to examine whether juveniles know about transfer laws, whether this knowledge deters criminal behavior, and whether juveniles believe the laws will be enforced against them. The current study is one of the first to examine juveniles' knowledge and perceptions of transfer laws and criminal sanctions. We …