Age of innocence: more and more states are telling teens: if you do an adult crime, you'll serve adult time
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In the 1990s, some 30 states and the District of Columbia have started treating juvenile delinquents more harshly, sometimes by excluding some crimes from juvenile court jurisdiction and sometimes by trying younger offenders in adult court. According to the Justice Department, transfers to adult court increased by 68% between 1988 and 1992. Some critics feel that incarcerating juveniles in adult prisons means sending them to schools for crime where they will learn more from older, tougher inmates. Critics point to Florida, the state with the most experience transferring juveniles to adult criminal courts. Florida has a high recidivism rate for juvenile delinquents.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
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M & A is back ... only this time, mergers and acquisitions have a kinder, gentler face
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Corporate mergers and acquisitions may have experienced a downturn in the early 1990s, but later in the decade they are on the increase. Partners to the deals are, however, likely to be willing, and attorneys are no longer drafting corporate anti-takeover measures. Litigation is no longer as important as antitrust strategy, and corporate clients put more pressure on attorneys to control costs. Along with the emphasis on cost control comes greater reliance on in-house counsel.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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Breaking up prison gridlock: the federal sentencing commission is looking to the states for reform guidance even as their policies are being bent by political and fiscal pressures
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About two dozen states are devising sentencing guidelines and trying to avoid the pitfalls of the federal system, such as its detail and consideration of behavior for which a defendant has not received a criminal conviction. The most progressive state systems try to avoid prison overcrowding and prison construction which goes beyond state financial resources. At the federal level, officials are interested in reassessing state guidelines and having key state players help.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
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