Lost Causes : Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission /

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What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate sentencing," a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Trulson, Chad R. (Autor), Caudill, Jonathan W. (Autor), Haerle, Darin R. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Marquart, James W. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Temas:
Juvenile corrections > Texas.
Juvenile courts > Texas.
Juvenile delinquency > Texas.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > Texas.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Texas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Determinate Sentencing and the Texas Youth Commission: A Timeline
  • Chapter 1. Origins and Discoveries
  • Chapter 2. The Determinate Sentencing Act in Texas
  • Chapter 3. The Sheep That Got Lost
  • Chapter 4. Doing Time in the Texas Youth Commission
  • Chapter 5. Another Second Chance
  • Chapter 6. The Burden of Second Chances
  • Chapter 7. Three Decades Later
  • Chapter 8. The Last Word
  • Notes
  • Index

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