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Lost Causes - Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission (Paperback)
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Lost Causes - Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission (Paperback)
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What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy
the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most
serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate
sentencing," a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the
juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via
determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the
Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they
are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the
remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from
TYC into Texas's communities. The first long-term study of
determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines the social
and delinquent histories, institutionalization experiences, and
release and recidivism outcomes of more than 3,000 serious and
violent juvenile offenders who received such sentences between 1987
and 2011. The authors seek to understand the process, outcomes, and
consequences of determinate sentencing, which gave serious and
violent juvenile offenders one more chance to redeem themselves or
to solidify their place as the next generation of adult prisoners
in Texas. The book's findings-that about 70 percent of offenders
are released to the community during their most crime-prone years
instead of being transferred to the Texas prison system and that
about half of those released continue to reoffend for serious
crimes-make Lost Causes crucial reading for all students and
practitioners of juvenile and criminal justice.
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