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Testing Incapacitation Theory: Youth Crime and Incarceration in California

Publication year: 2006 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Juvenile incarceration and crime rates in California for the last 47 years are analyzed and commented on. Sections of this report are: abstract; inroduction; incpaacitiation theory and practice in California; methodology; statewide juvenile criminal trends; statewide Department of Jvunile Justice (DJJ) commitment trend analysis; county DJJ commitment trends and crime rates; county juvenile crime rates and DJJ commitments; adult court transfer analysis; and conclusion. The simultaneous drop in youth crime and youth incarceration in California discredits incapacitation theory and suggests that hte crime reduction must be rooted in other societal circumstances (p. 13)"
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