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  1. Violent Justice: Adult system fails young offenders

    Laws that allow people under age 18 to be tried and imprisoned as adults have unintended effects, promoting an increase in new violent offenses among youth handled by the adult justice system.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. 19822

    In this article, an association is found between young offenders being tried as adults and increased criminal offenses later. The implication is made that one thing causes the other. Perhaps a better interpretation of the data would be that, because not every young offender is treated as an adult, the system is good at picking […]

    By Science News
  3. Planetary Science

    Little Enceladus disturbs Saturn’s magnetic field

    Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is acting as a brake on the giant planet's magnetic field.