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Showing 2 verified claims · recidivism, rehabilitation & desistance
Adolescent personality and character are still forming and are not reliable indicators of fixed adult character; most adolescents who engage in antisocial behavior, including serious offending, desist as they mature, so adolescent conduct is a poor predictor of irretrievable depravity.
Transferring juveniles to adult criminal court does not achieve specific deterrence and, in the most credible studies, tends to increase rather than reduce recidivism relative to retention in the juvenile system; pooled effects are heterogeneous and some rigorous analyses find null or offense-specific effects, but no body of evidence supports transfer as a means of reducing reoffending.