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"States Prosecute Fewer Teenagers in Adult Courts"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting front-page article from today's New York Times.  Here is how it gets started: A generation after record levels of youth crime spurred a nationwide movement to prosecute more teenagers as adults, a consensus is emerging that many young delinquents have been mishandled by the adult court system. Last year, Connecticut stopped treating all 16-year-old defendants as adults, and next year will do the same for 17-year-olds. Illinois recently transferred certain low-level offenders younger than 18 into its juvenile system.  And in January, lawmakers in Massachusetts introduced a bill to raise the age of adulthood in matters of crime, and their counterparts in Wisconsin and North Carolina intend to do the same...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).