Carol A. Schubert and Edward P. Mulvey – On Deterrence
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Deterrence: How Do Serious Juvenile Offenders Perceive the Rewards and Risks of Crime? One of the reasons that we, as a society, lock up adolescents who commit serious crimes is that we believe it will deter them from committing future crimes. Deterrence is a foundational element in the rationale for, and mission of, the justice system. Yet we don’t fully understand how deterrence operates for certain types of offenders. In particular, we know very little about how the experience of punishment affects the perceptions of adolescent offenders.