Waivers and Pre-Hearing Detention
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My observations will well complement those of Jerome Miller. It becomes useful in the discussion of prediction to consider one's ultimate goal. The ultimate goal pursued by both Miller and me is reducing the unnecessarily high number of juveniles incarcerated each year in the United States. The theme of both Miller's paper and mine, therefore, is that too many juveniles are deprived of their liberty for no good reason. The reader who disagrees with my conclusion at least now knows my biases. Moreover, I do believe the reader will agree with my premises: if in fact the millions of dollars we spend per year depriving juveniles of their liberty do not reduce the crime rate, we should reconsider what we are doing. If the millions of dollars we spend per year depriving youths of their liberty actually increases the crime rate, a dramatic claim, to be sure, but one of Miller's themes, that reconsideration should occur immediately. My paper first describes briefly the rhetorical underpinnings of juvenile justice in the United States. It then provides some facts concerning pretrial detention which complement Donna Hamparian's study and other research concerning juveniles and career criminality alluded to in this Volume.
Source Publication
The Prediction of Criminal Violence
Source Editors/Authors
Fernand N. Dutile, Cleon H. Foust
Publication Date
1987
Recommended Citation
Guggenheim, Martin, "Waivers and Pre-Hearing Detention" (1987). Faculty Chapters. 1275.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1275
