In Outgrowing Juvenile Justice, Michael Jonas (2001) raises several important issues concerning juvenile justice policies and practices. In discussing Jamal Vick, a range of youth crime issues surfaces, including:
• Balancing treatment verses punishment
• Responses to serious juvenile offenders
o Waiver into the adult criminal justice system
o Utilize the juvenile justice system
o Blend elements of both the adult system and the juvenile system
• Youth in confinement
o Growing numbers of youth confined
o Disproportionate number of minority youth confined
• Offense focused juvenile court verses offender focused juvenile court
• Status offenses verses delinquent offenses
At 16 years old, Jamal Vick was facing a 10-to-15 year sentence in an adult facility for Assault with Intent to Murder. Under the Youthful Offender Law passed in 1996, offenders as young as 14 years old could receive adult sentences for a wide range of crimes. Instead of a harsh adult sentence,......

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Title: Outgrowing Juvenile Justice: Jamal Vick Case Study Raises
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