Children in an Adult World: Prosecuting Adolescents in Criminal and Juvenile Jurisdictions

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2004

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Since the creation of the juvenile justice system at the turn of the twentieth century, juvenile justice system reforms have reshaped how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in the United States. One important shift in the prosecution and punishment of adolescents is the increasingly frequent transfer of youth from the juvenile jurisdiction to the criminal jurisdiction previously reserved primarily for adult offenders.

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