Friday Interview: The Best Way to Deal With 16-Year-Old Offenders

RALEIGH — North Carolina is one of only two states that send all 16-year-old offenders to the adult court system rather than the juvenile justice system. Marc Levin, director of the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Right on Crime, a national organization devoted to criminal justice policy research and analysis, believes North Carolina ought to change its “default setting” for treatment of 16-year-olds. He explained why during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.