What are the advantages and disadvantages of transferring juveniles to adult court?

What will be an ideal response?


Some of the advantages of transferring juveniles to adult court include: weak sanctions at the juvenile court level; increased due process rights in adult court; increased sympathies for juvenile offenders in adult court; possible inappropriateness of juvenile system for juvenile offenders; and type and seriousness of crime committed. Some of the disadvantages of transferring juveniles to adult court include: reduced likelihood of rehabilitation; undeveloped capacity for judgment in adolescent brain; harsh consequences of criminal court felony conviction; increased social stigma related to adult court conviction.

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A. Preemptory B. Preliminary C. Probable D. Precursor

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a. Egoists b. Utilitarians c. Pluralists d. Moralists

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