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Download full textDepartment of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. – 1999
This report describes the development of the juvenile justice system in the United States. It uses current data to look at where it is heading, and the recent trend of transferring certain juvenile cases to adult criminal court. Section 1 explains that the juvenile justice system was founded on the concept of rehabilitation through individualized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Delinquency
