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  • 022088

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  • Published 2006.
  • 33 pages.

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Return Them to Juvenile Court

Publication year: 2006 | Cataloged on: Jan. 29, 2007
ANNOTATION: The need to "return older and more seriously offending juveniles to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court" is explained (p. 2). Sections of this brief are: executive summary; presentation purpose; negative impacts of the revised public policy -- over-criminalization of juveniles; provisions that enable criminal court handling of juveniles; alleviating the harshness of criminalization; the quest to re-juvenalize justice; juvenile courts were formed to remove youth from criminal courts and adult jails and prisons; the legalization of juvenile court procedures; responses to the new Juvenile Court; basics of today's juvenile justice system; balanced and restorative justice -- one more basic; examples of deeper end juvenile justice programs; a Pittsburgh example -- the Community Intensive Supervision Program (CISP); a Denver program -- the Denver Youth Development Center (DYDC); a Texas secure facility for capital and serious violent juvenile offenders -- the Giddings State School; and conclusion.
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