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A 5 page overview of juvenile crime. While “get tough” policies have resulted in a lowered degree of juvenile crime, our juvenile detention facilities and adult penitentiaries alike are filled to the brim. The economic cost of crime is astounding. A more effective approach than either “get tough” programs or rehabilitation would be to address the societal problems resulting in crime. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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There are practically as many opinions as to how to address juvenile crime as there are people. Practically every state passed laws in the 1990s facilitating the criminal justice
systems ability to charge juveniles as adults (Montagne, 2000). The age at which juveniles can be charged as an adult have been almost uniformly lowered across the nation (Montagne,
2000). Some contend, however, that with a decade or so of "get tough" policies regarding the problem of juvenile crime, we are slowly beginning to realize that treating young
offenders as adults may not be all that effective in regard to actually addressing the issues. Others, however, are very simply tired of the growing degree of violence being
effected by juveniles. They contend that the harsher the sentence the better the chance of addressing a deep and festering problem. Those
that criticize the get tough policies that have characterized juvenile sentencing over the last decade or so often point to blended sentencing as a more effective address of the problem.
In blended sentencing juveniles committing serious crimes first receive either a light sentence or probation (Montagne, 2000). If that juvenile gets into trouble in the future, however, they
are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain concerns even in regard to blended sentencing, however.
Certain risk factors would appear to make some youth more likely to eventually be sentenced as an adult than other youth (Montagne, 2000). Montagne (2000) reports:
"minorities are four times as likely as whites to be charged in adult court. And in drug cases,
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