What are the implications of treating juveniles as adults within the justice system?
What will be an ideal response?
There has always been a way to transfer juveniles to the adult system and different states have means and laws to do so. Recent changes had have made it easier to try juveniles as adult offenders and this is a significant departure from the original intent of having a separate juvenile justice system. Some state waiver laws have "once an adult, always an adult" provision.
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a. True b. False
Justifiable homicide refers to the killing of armed and dangerous felons by police or private citizens
a. True b. False
Inmate eligibility for a halfway house program requires that the inmate:
A) is on death row. B) be paroled. C) has a drug or alcohol dependency. D) be black.
This Act directed the Sentencing Commission to provide sentencing enhancement (add time to a sentence. for those crimes proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be hate crimes.
a. Justice for All Act b. Victims of Crime Act c. Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act d. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act