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Research Listing and Summaries of Key Studies

Campaign for Youth Justice National Reports

Campaign for Youth Justice Policy Briefs

Future of Children Fall 2008 Policy Brief: Keeping Adolescents Out of Prison. Research shows that harsh punishment in adult facilities increases the probability of future violent crimes and that most youngsters who commit criminal offenses will abandon illegal behavior as they enter adulthood. The authors review scientific evaluations of prevention and treatment programs and urge states to adapt their laws to emphasize evidence-based practice.

Effects on Violence of Laws and Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Youth from the Juvenile to the Adult Justice System. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Task Force on Community Preventive Services conducted a systematic review of published scientific evidence to determine whether laws and policies that facilitate transfer reduce youth violence. The task force found that transfer to the adult criminal justice increased rates of violence among transferred youth by 34%. See also CDC Report One-Page Summary.

Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency? Among the principal goals of youth transfer laws are to deter juvenile crime and decrease recidivism. This bulletin from the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts, focusing on large-scale comprehensive studies on the effect of transfer laws on recidivism.

Future of Children Journal: Juvenile Justice. A collection of articles looks at the current state of American juvenile justice policy from various perspectives and makes recommendations for the future. See Jeffrey Fagan's article (p. 81) entitled Juvenile Crime and Criminal Justice: Resolving Border Disputes for an overview of transfer laws by state and a discussion of the effect on juvenile crime.

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