United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office General Government Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-08-15 monographic deposited born digital 99 p. GA 1.13:GGD-95-170 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170 P0b002ee180384d58 f:gg95170 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170 GGD-95-170 Juvenile status offenders Courtroom proceedings State law Juvenile delinquency Jurisdictional authority Convictions Criminal procedure Crimes or offenses Correctional facilities Letter Report GGD Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the frequency with which juveniles have been sent to criminal court, focusing on: (1) juvenile conviction rates and sentences in criminal court; (2) dispositions of juvenile cases in juvenile court; and (3) conditions of confinement for juveniles incarcerated in adult correctional facilities.<p/>GAO found that: (1) less than 2 percent of the juvenile delinquency cases filed in juvenile court from 1988 through 1992 were transferred to criminal court; (2) in states that permitted prosecutor direct filing, between 1 and 13 percent of the juvenile cases were referred directly to criminal court; (3) state laws that excluded certain juveniles from juvenile court jurisdiction mainly focused on violent offenses or juveniles with previous court records; (4) new state laws have generally increased the frequency in which juveniles are sent to criminal court by either decreasing the age or increasing the types of offenses for which juveniles may be sent to criminal court; (5) juveniles in six of the seven states studied tended to be convicted when prosecuted in criminal court, most often for property offenses; (6) between 3 to 50 percent of the juveniles convicted of serious violent offenses received probation; (7) in four of the seven states, juvenile incarceration rates for violent, property, and drug offenses were between 62 and 100 percent; (8) in the 744,000 formal delinquency cases filed in 1992, 43 percent of the juveniles received probation, 27 percent of the cases were dismissed, 17 percent of the juveniles were placed in residential treatment, 12 percent received other disposition, and 1 percent were transferred to criminal court; and (9) in three of the states studied, the juveniles sentenced to adult prisons were housed in separate prisons, but health, recreation, and educational services were equivalent in all seven states' facilities. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170.pdf GAO/GGD-95-170 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-170 Letter Report GAO/GGD-95-170; Juvenile Justice: Juveniles Processed In Criminal Court and Case Dispositions; Juvenile status offenders Courtroom proceedings State law Juvenile delinquency Jurisdictional authority Convictions Criminal procedure Crimes or offenses Correctional facilities Public Law 93-415 Public Law 102-586