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New paper on blended juve sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

Now appearing on SSRN is this interesting new piece providing an empircal perspective on a "new juvenile sentencing innovation, blended sentencing."  The piece is titled "Who Gets a Second Chance? An Investigation of Ohio's Blended Juvenile Sentence," and here is the abstract:During the early 1990s, many state legislatures made sweeping changes in the dispositional and sentencing options available to juvenile courts, including the introduction of a new juvenile sentencing innovation, blended sentencing.  Blended sentencing emerged during a period of steadily increasing violent juvenile crime as a compromise between those who wanted to emphasize public safety, punishment, and accountability of juvenile offenders and those who wanted to maintain or strengthen the traditional juvenile justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).