Formal System Processing of Juveniles: Effects on Delinquency: A Systematic Review

By Sarah Guckenburg, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino. 2010

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Justice practitioners have tremendous discretion on how to handle juvenile offenders. Police officers, district attorneys, juvenile court intake officers, juvenile and family court judges, and other officials can decide whether the juvenile should be “officially processed” by the juvenile justice system, diverted from the system to a program, counseling or some other services, or to do nothing at all (release the juvenile altogether). An important policy question is which strategy leads to the best outcomes for juveniles. This is an important question in the United States, but many other nations are concerned with the decision to formally process or divert juvenile offenders. There have been a number of randomized experiments in the juvenile courts that have examined the impact of juvenile system processing that should be gathered together in a systematic fashion to provide rigorous evidence about the impact of this decision on subsequent offending by juveniles.The objective of this review is to answer the question: Does juvenile system processing reduce subsequent delinquency?

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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• Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Developmental Perspective (2015, background): “…effects on youthful offenders (McGowen et al. 2007),21 the weight of the evidence suggests that involvement with the juvenile justice system does more harm than good, with negative effects magnified as punishments become harsher (Petrosino, Turpin-Petrosino, and Guckenburg 2010; Mears et al. 2011).”