Report: Certainty, Not Severity, Key in Deterring Juvenile Crime [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/13/154:00 AM

Researchers first reported several years ago that a major longitudinal study of serious adolescent offenders showed the severity of their punishments had little effect on their recidivism rates.

Digging into the data, the researchers also found that teenagers who commit serious crimes do respond to the threat or risk of sanctions, though not in a one-size-fits-all way.

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/report-certain...ring-juvenile-crime/]

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