NCJ Number
216624
Journal
Journal of Knowledge and Best Practices in Juvenile Justice & Psychology Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Dated: 2006 Pages: 35-40
Date Published
2006
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article presents an annotated bibliography addressing the concern of juvenile transfer to adult courts and its appropriateness.
Abstract
Several authors are noted on trends in the juvenile justice system and provide a complete history of the juvenile justice system from how and when it started to the changes and their underlying motivations. The authors provide research evidence suggesting that some interventions work well with juvenile offenders, such as multisystemic therapy, while other interventions are less effective or completely ineffective, such as boot camps and simple incarceration. The article challenges the public and policymakers to put more consideration into long-term effectiveness of interventions over short-term solutions. The findings indicate that the most effective and efficient program targets interventions and punishments to individual juveniles instead of making sweeping decisions. While critics want to abolish the juvenile system, others believe it should remain in existence, but only if some changes occur. In this article, research studies were grouped from a search of the literature into three progressive classes. The first focuses on the history of and trends in the juvenile justice system. The second focuses on the transfer of juveniles to the adult court system. The third focuses on the appropriateness of transferring juveniles into the adult system. References