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| Massachusetts Increases Juvenile Court Jurisdiction to Include 17-Year-Olds |
| By jjie.org - James Swift |
| Published: 09/27/2013 |
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Massachusetts now includes 17-year-olds in its juvenile justice system. Only 10 states remain which place 17-year-olds under adult court jurisdiction. Although 17-year-olds who commit violent crimes will be placed in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system, judges still have the discretion to sentence them as adults. It’s an important move in the right direction for the state, advocates say. “I am very pleased and I think it’s very long overdue,” said Gail Garinger, director of Massachusetts’ Office of the Child Advocate. “As a juvenile court judge, I absolutely never understood why we had a cutoff at 17. It just didn’t seem consistent with any other statute or anything else I knew about adolescence in terms of what other states were doing.” Read More. |
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