Assertion: juvenile's crime | /r/HasProperty | serious
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For the few juveniles who commit serious crimes and have poor prospects for rehabilitation, current laws provide that they be transferred to adult criminal courts.
text: As documented in the following pages, many juveniles who commit crimes (even serious crimes) never enter the juvenile justice system.
text: According to their most recent publication, 7 in 1000 juveniles in the US committed a serious crime in 2016.
text: Furthermore, sometimes older juveniles who commit serious or violent crimes are tried as adults, even though they would normally be considered juveniles.
text: A juvenile who has committed very serious crimes may continue a pattern of criminal behavior of which an adult court is unaware, changing the nature of sentencing in adult court.
text: Similarly, juveniles who commit serious crime weigh the pleasure they imagine they will receive against potentially being arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sent to prison.
text: A judge, intake officer, or magistrate must find probable cause that the juvenile committed a serious crime or violated conditions of his or her probation or parole and that there is clear and convincing evidence that: