Report examines sentencing children as adults

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 07/28/2009 - 8:44am

Under flawed criminal justice policy that is inconsistent with evidence-based research, trying and sentencing young children as adults occurs with alarming frequency and devastating results, according to a first policy research report on the subject released today by the Lyndon B.

Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. The report, "From [...]



 

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