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1 Whittier J. Child. & Fam. Advoc. 37 (2002)
A Reexamination of the Juvenile Justice System

handle is hein.journals/wjcfad1 and id is 39 raw text is: A REEXAMINATION OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM JOHN ALAN COHAN, ESQ. INTRODUCTION In the 1990's, we were warned that a new breed of young superpredator was at large in America, committing depraved acts of brutality seemingly for sport.' In 1996, John J. Dilulio, Jr. coined the term superpredators in his theory around the notion that a new generation of street criminals is upon us-the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known.2 Now as the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, he has retracted his theory, which had incorrectly predicted these superpredators would sharply increase the level of teenage violence ,,3 by the turn of the century. In fact, juvenile crime has been decreasing since 1995, yet the media persists in making it seem as though it has 4 gotten worse. In this paper, I will argue that the trend in the United States towards increasingly aggressive waiver and transfer laws of juveniles into adult court has resulted in the creation of more, and younger, convicted criminals who are unable to successfully reintegrate into society as productive citizens. 1. Peter Annin, 'Superpredators' Arrive: Should We Cage the New Breed of Vicious Kids?, Newsweek 57 (Jan 22, 1996). (discussing a purported new breed of extremely violent juvenile offenders). 2. Elizabeth Becker, As Ex-theorist on Young 'Superpredators,' Bush Aide Has Regrets, N.Y. Times A19 (Feb. 9, 2001). 3. Id. 4. Eric K. Klein , Dennis the Menace or Billy the Kid: An Analysis of the role of Transfer to criminal Court in Juvenile Justice, 35 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 371, 373 n. 12, 409 (1998).

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