Citation

Schwartz IM, Guo S, Kerbs JJ. Crime Delinq. 1993; 39(1): 5-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011128793039001002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines data from a 1991 national public opinion survey on attitudes toward juvenile crime/justice. Specifically, it explores the relationship between demographic variables and opinions toward trying juveniles in adult courts, giving them adult sentences, and sentencing them to adult prisons. The findings indicate that a majority of typical respondents favor trying juveniles in adult courts for serious felonies. Additionally, punitive attitudes toward juveniles decrease up to a certain age, usually around 50, and then increase. Findings also show that African-American parents are more supportive of punitive juvenile justice policies than other racial/ethnic groups with and without children.