JUVENILE COURT IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ADULT CRIMINALITY - A REPLICATED STUDY (FROM CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, A READER, 1970 BY CARL A. BERSANI - SEE NCJ-006248)

• NCJ Number: 10222
• Author(s): M R CHAITIN; H W DUNHAM
• Date Published: 1970
• Length: 8 pages
• Corporate Author: Macmillan
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: REPRINTED FROM SOCIAL FORCES, V 45, N 1 (SEPTEMBER 1966), P 114-119

Annotation

STUDY TO DETERMINE THE PERCENTAGE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS PROCESSED THROUGH THE WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JUVENILE COURT WHO SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME ADULT OFFENDERS.

Abstract

THE RESULTS INDICATE THAT IN SPITE OF THE ADDITION OF NUMEROUS HIGHLY PAID AND QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS, THE COURT HAD NO BETTER RESULTS IN ARRESTING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AT THE TIME OF THE STUDY THAN IT DID 30 YEARS EARLIER.