1. The Morality In Juvenile Justice
From this perspective, the fact that incarceration of a young juvenile with adult criminals might only serve to increase recidivism, and does not generally serve to rehabilitate young offenders is not relevant to the fact that the overall good as been served. ... Similarly, Jeffrey Fagan, director for the Center for Violence Research and Presentation at Columbia University, in a study of fifteen and sixteen-year-old felons found that minors tried in adult courts had higher rates of recidivism than those tried in juvenile courts for similar crimes (Anonymous 2). ...
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