Citation

Singer S. Crime Delinq. 1993; 39(2): 253-261.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011128793039002009

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Legislative waiver bypasses juvenile court and juvenile justice officials by initially transferring jurisdiction ever juveniles arrested for serious offenses to criminal court. Supporters of legislative waiver argue that the exclusion of offense categories from juvenile court jurisdiction best meets the punishment-oriented objectives of waiver However a logislic regression analysis of case processing decisions in a state with automatic transfer provisions revealed that juvenile offenders from single-parent households were more likely to face a grand jury indictment than juveniles from dual-parent households.

Language: en