From Vanguard:
In the American criminal legal system, there is a troubling disconnect between what we know about people and what we choose to do with them. A person can commit a crime as a teenager, be sentenced to life without parole, and die behind bars decades later—even though they long ago stopped posing any threat to public safety.
This isn’t an accident but deliberate policy. And it’s a policy built on the flawed assumption that people never change.
In truth, most people do change. One of the most well-established principles in criminology is that people tend to “age out” of crime. The vast majority of offenses are committed by young people in their teens and early twenties. Continue reading >>>
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