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NY Times Editiorial: Don?t Teach Our Children Crime

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NY Times July 3, 2008 Editorial Don?t Teach Our Children Crime Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, the states agreed to humanize their often Dickensian juvenile justice systems in exchange for increased federal aid. This promising arrangement collapsed in the 1990s during hysteria about an adolescent crime wave that never materialized. The states intensified all kinds of punishments for children and sent large numbers to adult jails where, research has shown, they are more likely to be battered, traumatized and transformed into hard-core, recidivist criminals. Congress is in the process of reauthorizing the law, and it ought to bar the states from housing children in adult jails, except for the most heinous crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).