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| Penn Study: Trying Kids as Adults Can Reduce Recidivism |
| By http://www.phillymag.com |
| Published: 06/17/2015 |
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A number of academic studies have found that prosecuting juveniles as adults increases the likelihood that they’ll end up back in the criminal justice system, with recidivism going up as much as 20 percent to 30 percent in such cases. This has led some policymakers to try to raise the age that kids can be tried as adults. But a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania flips that narrative on its head. In a paper published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, assistant professor Charles Loeffler and doctoral candidate Ben Grunwald tracked the outcomes of 78,142 felony drug arrests of teenagers. They found that processing these juveniles as adults actually reduced their chances of being arrested or charged again after being released — by a significant amount. Read More. |
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