BADM 1004- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)

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Raise the age reforms: keeping teenagers out of adult prisons. It is common knowledge that the developing teenage brains function, in general, differently than those of adults. However, over the past 10 years, changes are seen in half of the states that had previously excluded 16 and 17-year-old teenagers from juvenile court. Raise the age reforms aim to move thousands of teenagers under the age of 18 out of adult correctional facilities. The policy report raising the age: shifting to a safer and more effective. Juvenile justice system enumerates various advantages of keeping juveniles out of adult criminal justice systems, including higher likelihood of successful transition to adulthood, lower rate of recidivism and higher potential to avoid physical and psychological abuse. Furthermore, the policy report debunks the following myths regarding raising the age for juvenile justice. First, raising the age standard for juvenile courts does not increase cost associated with incarceration.