State Legislative Responses to Violent Juvenile Crime: 1996-97 Update. Juvenile Justice Bulletin.

Serious and violent juvenile offenders have precipitated unprecedented change in the juvenile justice system. In 1996, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention published State Responses to Serious and Violent Juvenile Crime. The Report summarized changes in jurisdictional authority, sentencing, corrections programming, confidentiality of records and court hearings, and victim involvement in juvenile proceedings, undertaken by States from 1992 through 1995.