US: Emerging Adults Need a Justice System Guided by Facts (Opinion)
Imprint – July 08, 2021
The field of emerging adult justice, which focuses on the critical transition to healthy adulthood between the ages of 18 to 25, is burgeoning, yet our understanding of this age group is already persuasive. We know more than enough today to justify a long warning label regarding the dangers that the adult criminal legal system poses to emerging adults. Yet legislatures across the country are only just beginning to focus on how developmentally inappropriate it is to automatically prosecute and sentence emerging adults in the same system as older ones. And even when policy makers do look at the issue, all too often, personal feelings about accountability and emotions end up overshadowing the data.
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