U.S. Department of Justice

Keeping Adolescents Out of Prison

Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: May. 21, 2009

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ANNOTATION: This policy brief explains "recommendations for reducing youth placements in adult facilities and other forms of harsh punishment in favor of more appropriate and cost-effective responses to youth crime" (p. 2). Sections following a summary include: a violent teen crime wave during the 1980s and 90s; penal proportionality and adolescent development; harsh punishment for adolescents does not work; what works to deter juvenile crime; and the work ahead in preventing juvenile crime.
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