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True or False. During the 1980s and 1990s and the "get-tough” movement,

almost all states passed legislation that made it more difficult for juvenile cases
to be waived to adult court.

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Answer:During the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, a

sharp rise in violent crime produced intense interest in

the causes of juvenile crime and the effectiveness of the

juvenile justice system. Juvenile arrests for violent offenses

jumped dramatically during this time period, increasing

64 percent nationally between 1980 and 1994 (Butts and

Travis, 2002). In addition, some highly publicized cases

of juveniles committing repeated, serious violent offenses

contributed to public perception that the juvenile justice

system was inadequate to intervene effectively with adolescents who were a legitimate threat to public safety (Butterfield, 1995). These forces even prompted radical, and

ultimately unfounded, rhetoric about a coming wave of

adolescent “superpredators” unlike any previous juvenile

offenders in their heartlessness and lack of response to

interventions (DiIulio, 1995).

In this context, the public began to distrust the ability

of the juvenile justice system to ensure public safety, and

state legislatures added statutory provisions to ensure that

youth who committed certain serious offenses were not

roaming the streets. Between 1992 and 1999, all but one

state expanded legislation that made it easier for juveniles to be tried as adults (Hansen, 2001). These changes

increased the set of crimes that qualified an adolescent for

transfer, lifted age restrictions, and added statutory exclusion and prosecutorial discretion as methods for achieving

transfer to adult court. The movement of adolescents to

adult court was no longer the product of a juvenile court

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