In this article, the author Jeffrey Shook discusses how the tough laws on juveniles in the 80's and 90's increased the number in juveniles in adult prisons with harsh sentences like life without parole. Shook discusses how these new laws made it so juveniles will attend adult court and be sentenced like adults which takes the power out of the judges hands to decide the minors sentence. The prosecutors get to decide instead and most juveniles are sentenced to adult prison because of this.
Author: Jeffery Cook
Article: sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole
Source: Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher: springer
2012 pg 93-104
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