The police and criminal justice experts respond with proper caution.
But to some academics and other juvenile justice experts, the changes in the law are alarming.
But criminal justice experts said there was no contradiction between the two trends.
By the mid-70's, criminal justice experts had come to believe that nothing works.
The consensus among criminal justice experts is that people with records of violent crime should not be in such programs.
But many Federal judges and criminal justice experts warn of serious problems in such an approach.
But criminal justice experts said that neither the department's problem nor its efforts to address it were unusual.
And if they do return to school, juvenile justice experts find, they are much more likely to get a degree or a job.
And some criminal justice experts agree with them, to an extent.
And you can check with any criminal justice expert in this city.