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New in the Library – You’re An Adult Now: Youth in Adult Criminal Justice Systems
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Now available in the NIC Library, “You’re An Adult Now: Youth in Adult Criminal Justice Systems“ focuses 025555on issues managing youth offenders in an adult corrections system.

Key findings include:

  • Youth transferred to the adult corrections system recidivate at a higher rate than those kept in the juvenile justice system;
  • Pretrial, post-conviction, and community supervision corrections systems face challenges keeping youth safe, effectively providing for their services and supervision, and containing costs required to serve youth appropriately. Due to these and other challenges corrections systems face when managing these youth, the transfer of juveniles in adult institutions might run counter to correctional and rehabilitative goals; 
  • To overcome these challenges, a number of states and localities have developed innovative ways of managing youth when they have been charged, convicted and committed to the adult corrections system. These changes are helping improve public safety, contain costs, successfully rehabilitate youth and help them transition to adulthood.

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Posted Mon, Jan 30 2012 8:27 AM by Susan Powell
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