Author : Yang Liu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Book Synopsis Did Transfer of Juvenile Offenders to Adult Jurisdictions Produce Different Outcomes for Different Offenses? by : Yang Liu
Download or read book Did Transfer of Juvenile Offenders to Adult Jurisdictions Produce Different Outcomes for Different Offenses? written by Yang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: With legislation amended or enacted to expedite transfer of more juvenile offenders to adult court jurisdiction, more and more juvenile offenders, including many property crime offenders, have been transferred to adult criminal courts. However, it has been unclear whether severity of sanctions differs greatly for property crime in the two court jurisdictions. Also unclear is the effect of transfer on recidivism of juveniles convicted of burglary, compared to juveniles convicted of serious personal crime such as robbery. Our study answers these questions of sanctions and recidivism for juveniles referred to adult court compared with juveniles referred to or retained under juvenile court jurisdiction. We compared recidivism and sanctions by type of offense between the two court jurisdictions, based on Florida and New York/New Jersey data sets. Results showed that juvenile offenders who were transferred to criminal court jurisdiction were more likely to recidivate and they also received harsher punishment than their counterparts retained in juvenile court jurisdiction. The findings on differences by offense type were different in the two data sets. Possible explanations are given for this discrepancy.