When Kids Get Arrested: What Every Adult Should Know

Every year, millions of children across the country get arrested. What most adults do not know is that the juvenile justice system has become much more punitive in the last fifteen years. No longer is juvenile court a place where regardless of what happens you get a clean slate when you turn eighteen. Today almost every adjudication of delinquency is accompanied by adultstyle fingerprinting, prior record score points, and DNA tests that can stay in a state repository for years. For every st...