Lost Causes: Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Y

Lost Causes\nby Chad R. Trulson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Chad R. Trulson\nTitle: Lost Causes\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Crime and criminology\nPublisher: University of Texas Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781477308455\nISBN-10: 1477308458\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWhat should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through \u201Cdeterminate sentencing,\u201D a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they are either transferred to .