Discusses the juvenile court system and recent trends toward sentencing juveniles as adults.

Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and ot

Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a te

Despite inventing the juvenile court a little more than a century ago, the United States has become an international outlier in its juvenile sentencing practice

When youths under eighteen commit violent and certain other crimes, in most states they may be referred to the adult court system. In this collection writers ex