@article{ref1,
title="The Impact of Demographic Variables on Public Opinion Regarding Juvenile Justice: Implications for Public Policy",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="1993",
author="Schwartz, I. M. and Guo, Shenyang and Kerbs, John J.",
volume="39",
number="1",
pages="5-28",
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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128793039001002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128793039001002"
}