Juvenile Sex Offenders in Corrections
Author: Mark C. Lasko, MA, CCHP.
Source: Volume 14, Number 06, September/October 2013 , pp.81-81(1)
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Abstract:
One of the many issues in understanding juvenile offenders is that although they have committed an adult crime, they may have done so without being able to think as an adult. Shouldn’t the purpose of the sentence of a juvenile who is still developing be to rehabilitate him or her?Keywords: Macarthur Foundation report of 2008; segregation; abnormal patterns of interaction; recidivism; leniency
Affiliations:
1: Mobile County Metro Jail.