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Treating Juveniles Like Juveniles: Getting Rid of Transfer and Expanded Adult Court Jurisdiction

dc.contributor.authorSlobogin, Christopher, 1951-
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-09T01:51:39Z
dc.date.available2015-12-09T01:51:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citation46 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 103 (2013)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/7340
dc.descriptionarticle published in law reviewen_US
dc.description.abstractThe number of juveniles transferred to adult court has skyrocketed in the past two decades and has only recently begun to level off. This symposium article argues that, because it wastes resources, damages juveniles, and decreases public safety, transfer should be abolished. It also argues that the diminished culpability rationale that has had much-deserved success at eliminating the juvenile death penalty and mandatory life without parole for juveniles is not likely to have a major impact on the much more prevalent practices of transferring mid- and older-adolescents to adult court and expanding adult court jurisdiction to adolescents; neither the law nor developmental science justifies the conclusion that juvenile offenders deserve significant mitigation in the non-capital context. If instead juvenile justice is reconceptualized as a preventive mechanism rather than a punishment regime (as laid out in the book I co-authored, "Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice"), transfer becomes much less alluring. If the primary goal of juvenile justice is public safety, with retribution conceived as an important goal only to the extent that recognizing it is necessary to ensure systemic legitimacy, then maintaining an adult court option for juveniles (and imposing long sentences on them) becomes unnecessary and counterproductive. Appended to this article is another article, written for the ABA’s Criminal Justice Magazine, that fleshes out how a risk management regime would work in a prevention-oriented juvenile justice system.en_US
dc.format.extent1 PDF (32 pages)en_US
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dc.publisherTexas Tech Law Reviewen_US
dc.subjectAdult courten_US
dc.subjectTransferen_US
dc.subjectMitigationen_US
dc.subjectDiminished culpabilityen_US
dc.subjectPreventive mechanismen_US
dc.subject.lcshJuvenile justice, Administration of -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshJuvenile courts -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshJuvenile delinquents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshCriminal justice, Administration of -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshExtenuating circumstances -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshJuvenile delinquency -- United States -- Preventionen_US
dc.subject.lcshPublic safety -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshCrime prevention -- United Statesen_US
dc.titleTreating Juveniles Like Juveniles: Getting Rid of Transfer and Expanded Adult Court Jurisdictionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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