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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for juvenile offenders (wyoming)
1 results foundAuthor: Arthur, Pat Title: A Call to Stop Child Prosecutions in Wyoming Adult Courts Summary: Unlike any other state in the nation, Wyoming commonly prosecutes children as criminals, imposing adult sentences for misbehavior more typical of normal adolescence than criminal. At significant cost to Wyoming taxpayers, children as young as eight years old who get in trouble for such transgressions as smoking at school, drinking at a weekend party, stealing a pack of gum, or skateboarding in the wrong place are being criminally prosecuted in adult courts in counties and cities throughout the state. While these adolescent misbehaviors may be challenging to families and communities trying to raise healthy kids, they present little or no real threat to public safety. Nevertheless, Wyoming uses costly criminal procedures and expensive detention beds to punish children for conduct that is more effectively addressed in the home or at school. It is estimated that 85-90% of children in trouble with the law in Wyoming are currently being processed through adult, not juvenile, courts where they become saddled with adult criminal convictions for minor misbehaviors. In the adult court system, kids receive few of the rehabilitative social services available in the juvenile justice system. With such extraordinary criminal court involvement in the rearing of Wyoming’s teens, it is no wonder that the state has the second highest juvenile incarceration rate in the country. Details: Oakland, CA: National Center for Youth Law, 2010. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 2, 2011 at: http://www.youthlaw.org/fileadmin/ncyl/youthlaw/juv_justice/A_Call_to_Stop_Child_Prosecutions.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.youthlaw.org/fileadmin/ncyl/youthlaw/juv_justice/A_Call_to_Stop_Child_Prosecutions.pdf Shelf Number: 122252 Keywords: Juvenile Court TransferJuvenile Offenders (Wyoming)Waiver (of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction) |