Certification to Criminal Court: The Important Policy Questions of How, When, and Why
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Crime & Delinquency
- Vol. 40 (2) , 262-281
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128794040002007
Abstract
Recent juvenile justice commentators have been guilty of serious misrepresentations about the process of transferring juvenile defendants to criminal court. If accepted, these misrepresentations could lead to dramatic changes in juvenile court certification policy. The purposes of this article are twofold. The first is to thoroughly explicate the transfer phenomenon and thereby neutralize the misrepresentations in the literature. The second objective is to identify the perspectives of various juvenile court workers regarding certification so as to further enable policymakers to comprehend and to address this volatile subject.Keywords
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