Noun
youthful offender (plural youthful offenders)
(law) A juvenile offender whose crime is sufficiently serious that they can be sentenced as an adult.
At Hebding’s arraignment in January, Casella argued for Hebding to be remanded, noting that Hebding had a youthful offender conviction here in 2000, but absconded to Portland, Ore. where he was homeless for a number of years and committed other offenses. Source: Internet
Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court last February upheld Carter’s conviction, saying her “conviction of involuntary manslaughter as a youthful offender is not legally or constitutionally infirm.” Source: Internet