Executing Juvenile Offenders: A Fundamental Failure of Society

Policy Endorsement

Abstract: The American Academy of Pediatrics endorses and accepts as its policy the Executing Juvenile Offenders: A Fundamental Failure of Society.

This policy was published in November 2004 in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The Policy Statement is available on the Society for Adolescent Medicine Web site: http://www.adolescenthealth.org/PositionPaper_Executing_Juvenile_Offenders.pdf