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Greenwood, Peter W.; And Others – 1984
This document analyzes the sentencing of young adult defendants in comparison with older adult and younger juvenile offenders, and disputes prior research which held that young adults received more lenient sentencing, perhaps because of the restrictions on disclosing juvenile delinquency histories. The document presents data from samples of young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Criminals, Criminology, Delinquency