Boys among Men
Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
David L. Myers
0-275-98254-8/978-0-275-98254-6
Description
Sheds new light on the popular but controversial move to charge, try, and sentence juvenile offenders as adults.
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Public pressure has led most U.S. states to pass laws making it easier to waive juvenile offenders to adult criminal court. Myers traces the history of this trend, weighs the underwhelming research support for this policy, and offers a framework for discussing youth violence issues.
—Reference & Research Book News
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In this exceptional overview of the process of juvenile waivers to adult court, Myers includes a detailed account of the history of the juvenile court system and does an excellent job of discussing the social and political context surrounding increases in transfers. He also gives clear descriptions of types of transfers as well as the process by which transfers occur, with a fair synopsis of prosecutorial and judicial discretion that should be easily understood by undergraduates and others not familiar with the juvenile justice system....Recommended.
—Choice
About the Author
David L. Myers
is Associate Professor of Criminology and a Dean's Associate in the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the Doctoral Program in Criminology and the Center for Research in Criminology. He is a member of the IUP Research Institute Advisory Board and the Institutional Review Board of the National Center for Juvenile Justice, as well as an Associate Editor and Columnist for Criminal Justice Research Reports. He is the author of
Excluding Violent Youths from Juvenile Court: The Effectiveness of Legislative Waiver
(2001), and his articles have appeared in such journals as
Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
,
Journal of Juvenile Justice and Detention Services
,
Criminal Justice Review
,
Justice Research and Policy
, and
Criminal Justice Studies
.
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