Column: Old before their time; Why it is counterproductive to try juveniles as adults
Feb 3, 2009, Dana Kaplan, Director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, New Orleans Times-Picayne
It is a mistake of thinking that treating children as though they are adults will help, not hinder, efforts to improve public safety. Evidence demonstrates that monitoring and support services that help court-involved kids turn their lives around, and youth employment and education programs that prevent kids from getting into trouble in the first place, are most effective at reducing crime. Yet children transferred to the adult system frequently return to society, and because a 14-year-old…
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