Youthful offender definition

Youthful offender means any person regardless of age, transferred to Circuit Court under the provisions of KRS Chapter 635 or 640 and who is subsequently convicted in Circuit Court.
Youthful offender means any person regardless of age, transferred to Circuit
Youthful offender means probationer, parolee, or work releasee 25 years of age and younger not having community status revoked but found to have violated conditions of supervision by the appropriate jurisdiction having statutory authority to revoke. Additionally, offenders 25 years of age and younger sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections that have been identified as potential shock probation candidates are eligible for program participation.

Examples of Youthful offender in a sentence

  • Youthful offender services include comprehensive volunteerprogramming in the Juvenile Hall and Coastal Valley Academy such as tutoring, religious services, art, creative writing, sports programming, bible study, meditation, Alcoholics Anonymous, chess club, “Street Law”, and the Anti-Violence Program.

  • Certain states have implemented a “youthful offender” category for those under 18 years.263 Youthful offender provisions allow juveniles to be sentenced to harsher standards than juvenile sentencing, but are less restrictive than adult sentencing standards;264 a category that seems more relevant for young adults rather than the younger juvenile age group.

  • Youthful offender is eligible for shock probation if he is denied probation at eighteen year old hearing under KRS 640.030(2).

  • Youthful offender procedure and definition of terms are contained in N.Y. CRIM.

  • Youthful offender cases are tried before a jury of twelve people as opposed to six people in a delinquency case.


More Definitions of Youthful offender

Youthful offender means an offender who is:
Youthful offender means a delinquent child subject to adult or juvenile sanctions who is:
Youthful offender means a person:
Youthful offender means an offender above the age of ten and below the age of sixteen years.
Youthful offender means a child who is charged with committing an offence.
Youthful offender or "offender" means a juvenile or a young adult offender who has been sentenced to the youthful offender system or who is eligible for sentencing to the youthful offender system.
Youthful offender means any boy who has been convicted of any offence punishable with transportation or imprisonment and who, at the time of such conviction, was under the age of fifteen years :