Juveniles and the Death Penalty: Policy Shifts and Legal Transfers

The 'Juveniles and the death penalty' dataset from paperswithcode addresses the shift in juvenile justice policy toward stronger punishments, including the transfer of juvenile offenders to criminal court and their potential subjection to the death penalty or life without parole. The description details the historical context of the juvenile court system, established in 1899 in Chicago, and the impact of revised death penalty statutes in the late 20th century. The dataset's author, organization, and specific temporal or geographic coverage are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in juvenile waiver or transfer to criminal court based on the policy shift described.
• Modeling the relationship between periods of increased violent crime and changes in juvenile sentencing laws.
• Studying the demographic or offense characteristics of youth subject to 'absolute' sentences like the death penalty.
• Investigating the impact of revised death penalty statutes passed in the last quarter of the 20th century on juvenile offenders.

Strengths

• Description provides specific historical context, citing the establishment of the first juvenile court in 1899 in Chicago, IL.
• Description identifies a key policy shift linked to the passage of revised death penalty statutes in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Method of data gathering is unknown.

Time Range

The description references the late 20th century and recent periods, but the dataset's specific temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

The description mentions the United States (Chicago, IL) as a historical reference point, but the dataset's spatial coverage is unknown.