Violence rates increase for youth transferred to criminal court

Just found a great study on juveniles who are waived and violence rates. Please read the abstract below. If this helps in your research, please refer to the full article.

Abstract: The independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services (Task Force), which directs development of the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide), has conducted a systematic review of published scientific evidence concerning the effectiveness of laws and policies that facilitate the transfer of juveniles to the adult criminal justice system, on either preventing or reducing violence (1) among those youth who experience the adult criminal system or (2) in the juvenile population as a whole.
This review focuses on interpersonal violence. Violence may lead to the juvenile’s initial
arrest and entry into the justice system and, for those who are arrested, may be committed
subsequent to exiting the justice system. Here transfer is defined as the placement of
juveniles aged less than 18 years under the jurisdiction of the adult criminal justice system,
rather than the juvenile justice system, following arrest. Using the methods developed by
the Community Guide to conduct a systematic review of literature and provide recommen-
dations to public health decision makers, the review team found that transferring juveniles
to the adult justice system generally increases, rather than decreases, rates of violence
among transferred youth. Evidence was insufficient for the Task Force on Community
Preventive Services to determine the effect of such laws and policies in reducing violent
behavior in the overall juvenile population. Overall, the Task Force recommends against
laws or policies facilitating the transfer of juveniles from the juvenile to the adult judicial
system for the purpose of reducing violence.

www.thecommunityguide.org/violence/mcgowanarticle4.pdf