STATUS OFFENDERS AND CAREER ESCALATION

Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders and Career Escalation

Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders and Career Escalation

Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq., was passed by Congress in 1974. It authorizes government equation allocations to states obeying with the four centre demands of the Act: The (deinstitutionalization of rank offenders) The parting of juvenile and mature individual lawbreakers The exclusion of juveniles from mature individual prisons The decrease of disproportionate few communicate A prime reason of the JJDPA, last reauthorized in 2002, is to boost states to supply alternate, non-custodial advances ...