Differential Effects of Adult Court Transfer on Juvenile Offender Recidivism

Prior research indicates that adolescent offenders transferred to adult court are more likely to recidivate than those retained in the juvenile system. The studies supporting this conclusion, however, are limited in addressing the issue of heterogeneity among transferred adolescents. This study estimates the effect of transfer on later crime using a sample of 654 serious juvenile offenders, 29% of whom were transferred. We use propensity score matching to reduce potential selection bias, and we partition the sample on legal characteristics to examine subgroup effects. We find an overall null effect of transfer on re-arrest, but evidence of differential effects of transfer for adolescents with different offending histories. These results suggest that evaluating the effects of transfer for all transferred adolescents together may lead to misguided policy conclusions.     

少年初犯预测研究——对浙江省少年初犯可能性的实证研究

在以往犯罪学家研究成果的基础上,采用分层和判断抽样的方法,对浙江省五百名在押少年犯和浙江省五百名在校中学生进行了调查.调查的内容分两步展开,一是采用自制问卷就社会因素与少年初犯之关系进行调查,二是采用现成的明尼苏达多相人格测验表就心理因素与少年初犯之关系进行调查.调查结果表明,在社会因素方面,家庭环境诸因素中有十四项、学校纪录有六项、早年行为模式有十八项、社会交往有四项因子与少年初犯存在关联.在心理因素方面,从包含十五个维度的明尼苏达多相人格测验表中检选出病态人格这一项因子.在此基础上,采用非加权计算点数的方法制作少年初犯可能预测量表.     

共同正犯相关问题研究

作者探讨共同正犯的相关问题 ,提出共同正犯是共犯类型 ,并对国外刑法理论关于共同正犯理论的犯罪共同说、行为共同说和意思主体共同说进行了评析 ,提出了共同正犯成立的基本范围 ,分析了共同正犯的主观要件和实行行为形态 ,并就共谋共同实行行为、继承的共同实行行为、分担的共同实行行为等存在较大争议的问题进行分析 ,提出了自己观点。     

Juvenile Court Clinical Services: A National Description

There have been few studies of the manner in which juvenile courts obtain clinical evaluations and consultation by juvenile court clinicians in order to identify and respond to youths with mental health problems. This study involved a telephone survey of professionals associated with juvenile court clinic (JCC) services in 87 of the largest juvenile court jurisdictions nationwide, providing data on their professional staff, functions, procedures, organizational and financial structures, and methods for providing evaluations to juvenile courts. We identified three models of JCC service delivery systems. Differences between the JCC service models offer hypotheses pertaining to potential differences in efficiency and quality of services and service delivery.