What juvenile court abolitionists can learn from the failures of sentencing reform

Wisconsin Law Review

Volumn 1996, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Yellen, David ^a  

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1. This remark has been attributed to the English Lord Macauley. See Stephen Breyer, Reforming Regulation, 59 TUL. L. REV. 4, 4 (1984).
2. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation arrest data, after remaining essentially stable for over a decade, the juvenile violent crime arrest rate soared between 1988 and 1992. see OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, U.S. DEP'T OF JUSTICE, JUVENILE OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS: A NATIONAL REPORT 104-10 (1995) [hereinafter JUVENILE OFFENDERS].
3. See, e.g., Alfred Regnery, Getting Away with Murder: Why the Juvenile Justice System Needs an Overhaul, 34 POL'Y REV. 65 (1985).
4. See infra text accompanying notes 76-77.
5. As an example of this trend, Illinois recently sent a 12 year old boy to a state juvenile penitentiary. The boy and another youth were convicted of murdering a five year old by dropping him from a 14-story building. The incarcerated youth, who is the nation's youngest inmate at a high-security prison, committed this terrible crime when he was 10 years old. Boy, 12, to Be Nation's Youngest Prison Inmate, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 30, 1996, at A4.