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Violent Youth in Juvenile and Adult Court: An Assessment of Sentencing Strategies in Texas
Author(s) -
FRITSCH ERIC J.,
HEMMENS CRAIG,
CAETI TORY J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1996.tb00166.x
Subject(s) - juvenile , waiver , juvenile court , juvenile delinquency , economic justice , prison , criminology , psychology , law , political science , biology , genetics
This paper examines the effectiveness of two sentencing strategies for managing serious and violent juvenile offenders: judicial waiver to adult court and determinate sentencing in juvenile court. Corrections data were analyzed and it was found that both groups consistently receive longer terms of incarceration than are available through normal juvenile justice processing. However, this finding changed when actual time served was taken into consideration. A discriminant analysis showed that juveniles determin‐ately sentenced in juvenile court are more likely to be younger and receive and serve shorter sentences than juveniles waived to adult court and sentenced to prison.