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Report: Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System
This literature review provides the most recent data on the number of youth in adult jails and prisons, explains legal procedures dictating how the juvenile and criminal justice systems process youth (including detaining and confining them with adults), investigates the impact of these practices on youth, and describes reform efforts supporting rehabilitation and individualized justice. Research links delinquency and criminal activity to adolescent brain development and maturation, which continues well into young adulthood, the review concludes.