Major Issues in Juvenile Justice Information and Training Youth in Adult Courts - Between Two Worlds - Northeast Region

• NCJ Number: 80827
• Author(s): D M Hamparian; L K Estep; S M Muntean; R R Priestino; R G Swisher; P L Wallace; J L White
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 220 pages
• Grant Number(s): 78-JN-AX-0038
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Corporate Author: Academy for Contemporary Problems
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The report profiles juveniles (under age 18) in adult courts in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in terms of the process by which youths are referred and what happens to them after conviction.

Abstract

Juveniles may be referred to adult court for trial by one of four mechanisms: judicial waiver, concurrent jurisdiction, excluded offenses, and maximum age of initial jurisdiction below age 18. Each profile includes descriptions of (1) the court organization, (2) the pertinent statutory provisions in the State code, (3) the relevant cases tried in the State supreme court, and (4) the correctional placement options for juveniles convicted in adult courts. Each profile also presents data collected from the States' counties on the frequency of referral of youths to adult courts, for each of the mechanisms permitted by State law. In addition, demographic and offense characteristics and the judgments and sentences received by these youths are described for at least the 10 percent most populous counties in the States and those referring five or more juveniles to adult courts in 1978. Data tables are included. (Author summary modified)