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Report: Whether youth offenders are certified as adults mostly depends on where they live

From Michele Deitch at UT's LBJ School comes a report on youth certified as adults in Texas, described in this email:Dear Colleagues,I am excited to announce publication of my new report, "Juveniles in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Texas" (LBJ School of Public Affairs, 2011).  The report is available for download on the LBJ School website at:   http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/news/2011/lbj-school-publishes-report-juveniles-texas-adult-criminal-j The report provides a comprehensive look at Texas?s methods for dealing with the state?s most serious juvenile offenders.  It gathers all available Texas data with respect to certified juveniles?those youth who are transferred to adult criminal court?and compares them to the population of determined sentence juveniles who are retained in the juvenile justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).