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Juvenile Sex Offenders in Corrections  


Author:  Mark C.  Lasko, MA, CCHP.


Source: Volume 14, Number 06, September/October 2013 , pp.81-81(1)




Correctional Health Care Report

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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.

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