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Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?

  • Written by Natalia Orendain, Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?Youth detention center in Atlanta. AP Photo/David Goldman

Children under 12 will no longer be treated as criminals in the state of California when they break the law, based on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1.

Before the law was passed, California had no minimum age for sending children to juvenile court – and that’s still true...

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