... alco- hol will reduce teen drunk driving. A general decline in driving fatalities has coincided with the various states' raising the legal drinking age to twenty-one. Advocates of prohibition were quick to credit the new laws, and a large study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tried to prove the point (Williams and others 1983). As with the flawed teen-smoking ... by only about 8 percent. Although such a reduction does not come close to solving the problem, it is a start. David Kopel suggests another part of the solution (1994, 153-55). He notes that both Switzerland and Ja...

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... transfers. Some states put minimums for certain offenses, some for the more violent offenses such as murder. Prior delinquency history is also looked at and factored into the waiver process. Notes: An entry in the column below an offense category means that there is at least one offense in that category for which a juvenile may be waived from juvenile court to ... of transferring them to adult court where they can receive a harsher punishment. Today's society is so focused on retributive justice that they aren't looking at the whole picture. Society is quick to punish. They don't think ...

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