young adult offender

Three of the boys were sentenced as young adult offenders.

And today, three of the boys - now men - were sentenced as young adult offenders to a medium-security detention center.

It suggested that probation services took the lead in drawing up local initiatives for young adult offenders at risk of custodial sentences.

That includes more than £150,000 to projects supervising offenders through the young adult offenders grant scheme.

It also houses the Young Adult Offenders program.

SCI Pine Grove, located in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, is a maximum-security facility for Young Adult Offender males.

The Young Adult Offender Program (YAOP) is primarily designed for those offenders between the ages of 15-20 adjudicated as adults due to the nature of the criminal offense committed.

The proportion of younger adult offenders, aged 18-25, rose from 23 percent to 40 percent of arrests in cases with actual underage victims, and from 7 percent to 34 percent in undercover police stings.

Judge R. Benjamin Cohen used a New Jersey law that may be applied to people 26 and under to sentence them as "young adult offenders," which would allow them to serve their time in campus-like complexes.

As Knight was between 18 and 21, he was classed as a young adult offender under Victorian law and also, because at the time Victoria did not have life without parole, he was given the 27-year minimum.

Most relate to the use of custodial penalties and are based on a technique that dates back to 1949 when courts were directed to avoid passing custodial sentences on young adult offenders unless it appeared that no other method was appropriate.

'There is a suggestion that the Act has been dreamed up by left-wing lunatics, when in fact it was devised by a Conservative government after wide consultation,' NACRO's director Vivien Stern told a conference on young adult offenders last month.

Need to Improve Credibility The department's strategy is to reduce its adult caseload of 52,000 by transferring the jurisdiction of young adult offenders; reclassifying criminals as to risk;, seeking new legislation on probation, and appealing to judges, who have the ultimate authority over each person sentenced.