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Correcting Juvenile Corrections |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE |
| Author: Ira M. Schwartz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,087 Words, 6,943 Characters |
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Fighting juvenile crime is a multibillion-dollar business in the United States. State and local politicians and juvenile justice officials will spend approximately $1.5 billion in 1990 just to incarcerate young offenders in detention centers, youth training schools, and juvenile prisons. Hundreds of millions more will be spent on police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, juvenile courts, probation officers, and parole workers.
Public concern about the juvenile crime problem and the widespread availability of drugs promises to push the level of expenditures up significantly in the 90s. Elected public officials, ever sensitive to the demands of their constituents, are advocating tougher and more costly policies are enacted, policymakers, juvenile justice officials, and the public-at-l...
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...blic officials and juvenile justice professionals advocate such measures, they would be wise to look carefully at the policies and results in such diverse states as Massachusetts and Utah. Clearly, if Sen. Ted Kennedy's and Sen. Orrin Hatch's home states can agree on a common approach to juvenile corrections policy, then there must be something worthwhile in it for the rest of the country. vbcrlf
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