Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Florida's prosecution of children as adults under its "Direct File" statute
United States : branded for life
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| Other authors / contributors: | Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
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| ISBN: | 9781623131180
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| Notes: | "Alba Morales, researcher in the US Program of Human Rights Watch, researched and wrote this report."--Page 98.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (HRW, viewed June 12, 2014).
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| Summary: | "This 110-page report details the harm that results from the state's practice of giving prosecutors full discretion to decide which children to prosecute in adult courts. More than 98 percent of the 1,500 cases of children charged as adults between 2012 and 2013 were brought by prosecutors under the direct file statute. The law offers no opportunity for a judge to review or reverse the prosecutor's decision, no matter how unsuitable the case is for criminal court."--Publisher's website.
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