Offenders aged 21 and over are known as adult offenders.

Drake Hall holds both adult and young offenders.

As for adult sexual offenders, George W. Bush says, "I believe most are beyond rehabilitation.

Youth justice Children and young people who break the law are dealt with quite differently than adult offenders.

A lot of work is centred on those adult offenders that are ordered to serve their sentences in the community as part of a community order.

Children nearing legal adulthood, usually age 17, are difficult to tell from adults, while adult offenders often claim to be juveniles.

Should we treat juveniles differently than adult offenders?

This initiative was similar to the Koori Court set up in Victoria for adult aboriginal offenders.

That population already overlaps significantly with the 80,000 adult offenders supervised by the Probation Department.

Discussion question: Should juvenile offenders be given different sentences than adult offenders who commit the same crime?