assessment instrument, recidivism is
reduced. Successful states have enacted
creative funding strategies to produce
local programming.
Juvenile justice reform is the smart,
long-term solution for Kentucky's
prison problem and can serve as a complement to adult penal code reform. The
return on taxpayer dollar is higher when
spent on kids. Or as the nationally
renowned economist Steve Aos put it:
"you get more bang for your buck" in
juvenile programming.
ENDNOTES
1. Steve Aos, Presentation, Reduce
Crime & Save Money: Switching
from Lower to Higher Return-onInvestment Programs and Policies
(Rutgers University EvidenceBased Initiative for Justice Policies
and Practices Conference, Oct. 20,
2011) (available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
gokwPakKjPk).
2. 2012 Ky. Acts 539.
3. KRS 532.007.
4. Kentucky is not alone. See Sarah
Alice Brown, Trends in Juvenile
Justice State Legislation 2001-2011
(National Conference of State Legislatures 2012) ( available at
http://www.ncsl.org/issuesresearch/justice/juvenile-justicetrends-report.aspx)(stating that
"state legislatures are reexamining
juvenile justice policies and rebalancing approaches to juvenile
crime and delinquency").
5. Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention,
Statistical Briefing Book ,
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/
crime/JAR_Display.asp
?ID=qa05201 (last updated Oct. 16,
2011).
6. John Dilulio of Princeton coined
the term "super-predator." See John
Dilulio, The Coming Wave of
Super-Predators , Weekly Standard
(Nov. 27, 1995).
7. KRS 527.070.
8. KRS 635.020.
9. KRS 640.010.
10. James Zambroski & Jennifer
Wohler, Why? Thanksgiving Theft
Fuels Seconds of Horror, Paducah
14 Bench & Bar January 2013
Sun, A1 (Dec. 1, 1997).
11. 1998 Ky. Acts 1881.
12. KRS 158.442 (creating Center for
School Safety); KRS 158.154
(imposing liability on principals for
failing to report); KRS 158.441
(defining "school resource officer").
13. Pew Center on the States, Kentucky: A Data-Driven Effort to
Protect Public Safety and Control
Corrections Spending, (October
2010)(available at http://www.dpa.
ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/
1DD65541-F32F-4447BE51-6D891C20CB6A/0/103_10_
PSPPKentuckyBrief_print.pdf ).
14. Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, supra n. 5.
15. Office of Program Policy Analysis
& Government Accountability,
Redirection Saves $51.2 Million and
Continues to Reduce Recidivism,
Report No. 10-38 (April 2010)
(available at http://www.oppaga.
state.fl.us/MonitorDocs/Reports/pdf/
1038rpt.pdf).
16. Id. at 1.
17. Id. at 5.
18. Damon Jones et al., The Economic
Return on PCCD's Investment in
Research-based Programs: A CostBenefit Assessment of Delinquency
Prevention in Pennsylvania, 3
(Pennsylvania State University
2008) (available at http://preven
tion.psu.edu/pubs/docs/PCCD_
Report2.pdf).
19. Id. at 5.
20. Id.
21. Legislative Analyst's Office, The
2012-13 Budget: Completing Juvenile Justice Realignment 3
(February 2012)(available at
http://www.lao.ca.gov/
analysis/2012/crim_justice/
juvenile-justice-021512.pdf ).
22. Little Hoover Commission, Juvenile Justice Reform: Realigning
Responsibilities i (July 2008)
(available at
http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhc/192/
report192.pdf ).
23. Justice Policy Institute, The Costs
of Confinement: Why Good Juvenile Justice Policies Make Good
Fiscal Sense (May 2009) (available
at http://www.justicepolicy.org/
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
images/upload/09_05_REP_
CostsofConfinement_JJ_PS.pdf).
Catherine Arnold, Christopher
Lowenkamp & Paula Smith, Presentation, Specific Deterrence with
Juveniles: Does Incarceration
Reduce Recidivism? (American
Society of Criminology, Los Angeles CA, Oct. 31, 2006).
E. P. Mulvey, Presentation, The
Pathways to Desistance Study:
Selected Findings and Policy Implications (Nat. Juv. Justice Network,
July 25, 2012).
Uberto Gatti, Richard E. Tremblay
& Frank Vitaro, Iatrogenic Effect of
Juvenile Justice, 50:8 J. Child Psychol. & Psy. 991, 995 (2009).
Id.
Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington, eds. "Serious & Violent
Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors
and Successful Interventions,"
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (1998); Shelly Zavlek,
"Planning Community-Based Facilities for Violent Juvenile Offenders
as Part of A System of Graduated
Sanctions," OJJDP Juvenile Justice
Bulletin (Aug. 2005).
Christopher T. Lowenkamp &
Edward J. Latessa, Understanding
the Risk Principle: How and Why
Correctional Interventions Can
Harm Low-Risk Offenders, Topics
in Community Corrections 3 (U.S.
Dep't of Justice National Institute
of Justice 2004) (available at
http://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/
ccjr/docs/articles/ticc04_final_
complete.pdf ).
Id. at 4.
Rob Wiederstein
is in his fourth
term as District
Judge in Henderson County,
having formerly
been an assistant county
attorney for four
years. He received his B.A. from
Hanover College and his J.D. from
Indiana University where he served
on the Indiana International and
Comparative Law Review.