21.   Bullock joined Bush in promising reforms in the welfare, juvenile justice and tort systems.

22.   Bush has done some important things, like oversee a needed reform of the juvenile justice system that gave more gravity to entry-level offenses.

23.   Bush pushed for a tougher juvenile justice system in his campaigns for governor.

24.   Bush, the new governor of Texas, had just garnered crucial victories in his first legislative session on such issues as juvenile justice and welfare.

25.   But critics contend, and Moore agreed Thursday, that the juvenile justice system has far more success at rehabilitation than the adult correctional system.

26.   But in recent years, she has taken increasingly moderate stands on social issues from education to juvenile justice to abortion rights.

27.   But juvenile justice specialists suggested otherwise.

28.   But Rosemary Sarri, a University of Michigan professor of social work specializing in juvenile justice, said Fairlawn might have helped Nathaniel.

29.   But the House defeated similar gun-control measures when it took up the juvenile justice bill.

30.   But the measure never made it through the House, and efforts to incorporate it into a joint House-Senate juvenile justice bill failed.