Article: Kids in adult correctional systems: an understanding of adolescent development can aid staff in managing youthful offender populations.

In many jurisdictions, legislators and other policy-makers have decided that violent youthful offenders should be placed in adult correctional systems, thinking that this strategy will make neighborhoods safer, programs more effective, and systems more efficient. The public is fed up with young people who damage property, vandalize communities, or do harm to people, and insists on imposing full sanctions on those offenders. Whether or not young people should be adjudicated and sentenced as adults is a question that is being debated in courts across the country. But the reality is that dozens of correctional systems already are facing the difficult task of integrating young ...

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