Sentencing disparities for juvenile offe
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Jason T. Carmichael
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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While the punishment of juvenile offenders has increasingly become an issue of major concern to the public, there are few studies that test the government's coercive response to offending by this particular group. This study addresses this issue by examining the variation in sentence length for juve