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A developmental perspective on serious juvenile crime: When should juveniles be treated as adults?
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A developmental perspective on serious juvenile crime: When should juveniles be treated as adults?

Laurence Steinberg and Elizabeth Cauffman
Federal Probation, Vol.63(2), pp.52-57
01/12/1999

Abstract

Adults Crime Juvenile justice Juvenile offenders Psychology
At a time when more juveniles are being tried as adults, many questions are raised about who should qualify for adult criminal status. Steinberg and Cauffman, whose backgrounds are in psychology and psychiatry, add the perspective of developmental psychology to this debate.

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