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From Michele Deitch

By Steve Hall

Michele is the lead author of From Time Out to Hard Time: Young Children in the Adult Criminal Justice System.   The report provides the first-ever comprehensive look at how the nation treats pre-adolescent children (primarily those age 12 and under) who commit serious crimes. The report analyzes the available data with regard to the transfer of young children to adult criminal court, documents the extremely harsh and tragic consequences that follow when young children go into the adult criminal justice system, profiles practices in states with particularly severe outcomes for these young children, looks at international practices, and offers policy recommendations.The report, which I co-authored with three of my students, finds that more than half the states permit children age 12 and under to be treated as adults for criminal justice purposes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).