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Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency?

This bulletin provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts, focusing on large-scale comprehensive Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention-funded studies on the effect of transfer laws on recidivism.

Available online

http://www.ncjrs.gov/

Author(s)

Richard Redding

Date

June 2010

Publisher

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention