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When comparing juveniles and adults, juveniles are much more likely to refuse to talk to an attorney, even though it is the attorney's duty to help. When juveniles are asked if they trust their attorney, only 6.2% of juveniles related positively to disclosing information to their attorney. [36]
Getting involved with the justice system is one of the fastest ways to end a teenager’s potential for becoming a successful adult. Being jailed as a juvenile makes a kid less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be incarcerated later in life, according to a 2015 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
All 10 of the children tried as adults in 2022, the most recent year available, were Black. The office did not answer specific questions about racial disparities in which children are tried as adults.
Almost all of the roughly 21,000 children tried as adults were transferred from the juvenile court system to the adult system via “direct file” — a state law that gives prosecutors sole ...
At times, a juvenile offender who is initially charged in juvenile court will be waived to adult court, meaning that the offender may be tried and sentenced in the same manner as an adult. [6] "Once an adult, always an adult" provisions state that juveniles who are convicted of a crime in adult court will thereafter always be tried in adult ...
A 16-year-old Erie boy was given a break in 2022 when, after being charged as an adult months earlier with firing numerous shots from two handguns at a passing vehicle and with having a ...
A study of New Jersey juvenile court records for the years 2010-2015 released by WNYC [177] late in 2016 found that Black and Latino offenders comprised almost 90% of juveniles tried as adults (849 Black youths, 247 Latino out of a total of 1,251 juveniles tried as adults during the five-year period, thereby Black/Hispanic teens represented 87. ...
Proposition 57 included on policy for judge's approval on juvenile offenders being tried as an adult, changing the eligibility requirements for an adult with violent convictions allowing them to be granted parole, and advising the prison system to be more lenient on the "good behavior" rules for those incarcerated to be released early. [61]