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Article: Made in America: the Global Youth Justice Movement: with more than 1,200 local youth and teen court programs in America--Europe, Australia, Asia, and Canada are now implementing this model to harness the positive peer influence of youth volunteers to reduce juvenile crime.(justice alerts)(Report)
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- Reclaiming Children and Youth
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Karen, 13, and her brother David, 17, were arrested for stealing two music CDs from the local music store. They admitted their guilt to the arresting police officer, who then presented them with a choice. Did they want to proceed in the youth court program and be sentenced by a jury of their peers-including some youth who were previously sentenced by their peers? Or did they want to proceed in the traditional juvenile justice system where they would appear in juvenile court with their punishment determined solely by an adult judge?
In the case of siblings "Karen" and "David," the guilty teens received sentences of 35 hours of ...