Judicial Waiver Decisions in Two Southern States: A Study of Judicial Perceptions

Keenan, Sheri Jenkins; Rush, Jeffrey P.; Cheeseman, Kelly

doi:10.1007/s12103-014-9241-y

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“…These data suggest that juvenile court judges primarily considered the seriousness of the offense, the previous history of the offender, and the maturity or age of the youth before waiving the juvenile to adult court. This supports the notion that judges (not the legislatures or prosecuting attorneys) are in the best position to decide whether to waive juveniles to adult court [71].…”

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Trends of the Time: An Examination of Judicial Waiver in One State

Burke

2015

Social Sciences

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During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly every state revised its laws or adopted new legislation facilitating the transfer of juvenile offenders from juvenile court to criminal court. Previously, transfer was reserved for the "worst juveniles", or those youths who were charged with serious violent offenses. This paper compares and contrasts girls and boys who were judicially waived to adult court in one state from 1994 to 2000. These data suggest that there may be other factors that influence judicial decision-making on the issue of transfer. Policy considerations are also discussed.

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Trends of the Time: An Examination of Judicial Waiver in One State

Burke

2015

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Research Addressing Transfer to CC

2023

Realizing the Purpose and Benefits of Juvenile Transfer to Criminal Court

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Chapter 12 addresses the research that has purportedly examined transfer to criminal court (CC). Just about all research has been limited to gauging deterrence. The research results have been mixed; some studies have found greater deterrence served by transfer, others have found less. Other studies have found sentences in CC that were longer than what juvenile court (JC) could have imposed, and still others have found sentence shorter than the maximum JC disposition. The anti-transfer crowd (ATC) uses the latter situation to “prove” that transfer is unnecessary. This Chapter discloses the shortsightedness of the research, plus the serious methodological problems that compromise the findings, especially in matched-pair studies. Also identified are the very relevant factors that are typically ignored in the research. The Chapter explains the promise of better constructed propensity-score research, which controls more factors and has found greater deterrence through transfer. The Chapter finishes on a cautionary note to pro-transfer types not to expect stellar results from transfer.

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Pennsylvania Juvenile Probation Departments in the Wake of the Luzerne County Scandal: What Has Changed?

Scott

Boyer

2021

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In 2008, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania made national headlines when the “Kids for Cash Scandal” broke. As a result of the actions of the Juvenile Court Judge and other juvenile system personnel, the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice was created to develop rules to prevent the juvenile jus-tice system in Pennsylvania from failing again. The purpose of this study was to determine how juvenile probation practices have changed since the scandal and if those departments were following through with the recommendations of the Commission. While many policies and practices have changed since the scandal, such as the policies regarding gifts and gratuities, there was a lack of consistency in the magnitude of those changes.

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Judicial Waiver Decisions in Two Southern States: A Study of Judicial Perceptions

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Trends of the Time: An Examination of Judicial Waiver in One State

Trends of the Time: An Examination of Judicial Waiver in One State

Research Addressing Transfer to CC

Pennsylvania Juvenile Probation Departments in the Wake of the Luzerne County Scandal: What Has Changed?

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