Risking Their Futures : Why Trying Nonviolent 17-Year-Olds as Adults Is Bad Policy for Wisconsin / Wendy Henderson.

In 1996 Wisconsin excluded 17-year-olds from being tried in the juvenile court. Initially this was an effort to save resources and improve community safety by incarcerating older teens as adults. At the time of the legislative change, there was little research to suggest that trying youth as adults...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Henderson, Wendy
Corporate Author:	Wisconsin Council on Children & Families
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2008.
Subjects:	Delinquency. Late Adolescents. Court Litigation. Juvenile Justice. Recidivism. Correctional Institutions. Institutionalized Persons. Correctional Education. Access to Education. Racial Differences. Ethnicity.