Support or Court: How States Respond to Youth Who Commit Status Offenses and Children Who Break the Law

Describes how states currently treat two categories of young people: youth who commit status offenses—behaviors that are not categorized as crimes—and young children who do not have the developmental capacity to fully understand the crimes they are committing.

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