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Blended Sentencing in Minnesota: On Target for Justice and Public Safety? An Evaluation
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Blended Sentencing in Minnesota: On Target for Justice and Public Safety? An Evaluation
Publication year:
2003
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The ability of blended sentencing or Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile (EJJ) to effectively target intended offenders is evaluated. EJJ emerged as a political compromise between those who wanted to emphasize public safety, punishment, and accountability of juvenile offenders, and those who wanted to maintain or strengthen the traditional juvenile justice system...[in other words, to be] an intermediary between conventional juvenile dispositions and adult certification (p. E-6-7). Following an executive summary are five chapters: introduction; motioning--the county attorneys decision; dispositional alternatives--the negotiated decision; case processing after selection of the dispositional alternative; and policy implications. Appendixes provide information regarding weights applied to observations, estimating the motioning model, and estimating the dispositional alternative model. EJJ fails to effectively target intended offenders.