A Centers for Disease Control-sponsored study of scientific research found that minors handled in the adult court system were 33.7 percent more likely to be rearrested than youths handled in the juvenile justice system.
In recent years, there has been a move to prosecute children as adults. But we're now beginning to see the fall out of this get-tough policy. Children as young as 13 and 14 have received life sentences without the possibility of parole and are serving sentences in adult prisons. (Disclosure: I did some freelance work for the organization that released that research.)
The U.S. is alone in its tough treatment of juvenile defendants. One hopes that this study will help show there is a good reason why no one else is following the U.S. example.

"We are unique in this country, and we don't get good results because of it," said state Rep. Alice Bordsen, an Alamance County Democrat. "If we did get good results, then everyone would be clamoring to be like us. But they're not." Stumble It!