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If there were any recommendations out of this study, Beckley said, hers would be to focus more on juvenile offenders while perhaps being a bit more lenient on first - time adult offenders.

Not exact matches

But Republicans counter that while juvenile offenders may be entering the system through adult court, that doesn't mean they are being treated as adults, since judges and prosecutors have broad discretion.

The Democrat and Chronicle says Cuomo's plan to pardon people convicted of nonviolent crimes while they were 16 or 17 years old and have stayed out of legal trouble for a decade «is a good step for New York and a potential new start for former juvenile offenders.»

And While Cuomo did not appear in public, he did write an op ed article to the legislature, asking for passage of another one of his agenda items, raising the age that juvenile offenders are treated as adults from 16 to 18 years of age.

Some charters implement longer school days, while others implement curricula specifically designed for at - risk students, gifted children, pregnant / parenting teens, juvenile offenders, and more.

An adult criminal offender would face prosecution in a trial, while juvenile criminal offenders would have their cases heard in the state's juvenile delinquency courts.

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Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.