The Teen Court Recidivism Report from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, states that out of 116 teen defendants, 78.44% (or 91 teen defendants) did not reoffend within 1 year of previous offense, and 21.56% (25 teen defendants) reoffended. The most common violations were speeding over 10% or more, followed by failure to maintain financial responsibility. The data suggest that the recidivism rate for teens who participated in 2015 was low, around 80%. The Teen Court Coordinator, as well as volunteers have expressed concern for a shortage of volunteers to assist with the program.…
Violent offenses included homicide, rape, robbery, assault, other sex offense, and weapons offense. Drug and alcohol offenses included drug dealing, drug possession, and DWI or DUI. Other offense included prostitution or other offenses not listed. As drug and alcohol offenses were the most commonly reported offense (52.2%), researchers used this variable as the contrast and included the other three variables in the regression model. To conclude, researchers accounted for prior incarcerations and prior convictions as they possibly influenced family relationships upon release.…
In the early part of our country’s history, certainly prior to the American Revolution, juvenile delinquency as we think of it today did not exist. That is, from the first days of the founding of the original colonies through the Revolutionary War, there was no such thing as delinquency. Perhaps the primary reasons for this were, first, that the colonies were fundamentally agricultural and children were expected to work along with their parents to survive (Oliver and Hilgenberg, 2006). Second, parents were responsible for the actions and behaviors of their children (Walker, 1998), consequently, most often misbehaving children were handled at home by their parents. Colonial law did, however, make punishable such offenses as running away, incorrigibility,…
In 2014 the LNP Government introduced the Youth Justice and Other Legislations Amendment Act which made changes to the legislation surrounding juveniles aged between 10 and 16 years of age. These new amendments have been changed to improve juvenile justice and created a fairer option for minors. The Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 states that the Children’s Court is an open court when reoffenders are admitted. (Department of Justice and Attorney General, 2014) This act allows the court to be held open in a case of a reoffending juvenile.…
The basis for this study was to examine how prevalent and severe substance abuse and dependence was and the use of substance related to violence and other offenses. Previous studies have shown that aggressive behavior and criminal behavior are associated with substance dependence. People who have anti-social personality disorder are more susceptible to have severe substance dependence. Most women in the study were ethnic. Only 35 percent were white.…
Running head: ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS 1 ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS 3 Adolescent Offenders Thomas J. McCarthy Grand Canyon University: PCN-535 May 24, 2017 Cultural Influence Of the total juvenile offenders arrested, about one half of them have substance use disorders. (What role can the juvenile justice system play in addressing adolescent drug abuse?, 2014) But being youthful offenders, these adolescents are lucky because if they were adults they would do jail time; especially during the 1970s and the Nelson Rockefeller Drug Laws. The Rockefeller Drug Laws prosecuted adults with at least two ounces of drug possession with major sentences. (Gray, 2009) Thank God today, even though there are still remnants of the…
Due to the implications of Reagan's War on Drugs laws, drug courts have demonstrated and proven to reduce recidivism for offenders who abuse substances. To deter overcrowding in the prisons, Researcher Messer has found that drug courts can be instrumental in deterring offenders from reoffending. It is surprising that “85% of offenders incarcerated require substance abuse treatment” (Messer, 2016). Drug courts allow offenders to “attain important skills/ideas, improve relationships with family and children, a general educational development certificate, a driver’s license, and/or gainful employment” (Messer, 2016). Researcher Shaffer studied over “80 drug courts and found recidivism rates of 46% for those who participated in drug court programming”…
Social reintegration is nearly non-existent with the current prison-based system for drug abusers. Incarceration has little effect on drug users, and recidivism is highly likely due to social isolation. The problems existing pre-incarceration, which led to the drug abuse, exist even after release. Such problems include difficulties with housing, employment, and social activity. These issues mainly exist in impoverished communities and are exacerbated by the current prison system.…
I’m writing to you, as a concerned citizen of the United States, about the alarming rate of juvenile incarceration in the United States and the problems associated with these rates. Countless young children, especially those living below the poverty line or in poverty, notably Black and Hispanic children are more likely to commit crimes than those living in the middle class or upper class and who are White. It’s simple; children with a lower social economic status are more likely to find themselves committing crimes and then being sentenced than children with higher social economic status’s. According to The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology “People in lower classes are often more visible, less powerful, and more likely to be apprehended…
Sean Seller was executed on Febuary 4, 1999 in Oklaholma. He was sentenced to death in prison when he was 16 years old. Douglas Christopher Thomas was executed on January 10,2000. He was sentenced to death in prison when he was 17 years old. This is only 2 off 22 juveniles who were sentenced to death in adult prisons.…
Juvenile offenders should not receive life sentence because they have not experienced life long enough to realize what they have did was wrong but, the juvenile’s in my opinion should have to a sort of community work or program to see the real views on life to understand what they did was wrong. Sending juvenile’s to prison is not the answer for many reasons including the violence that happens in prison’s, there is also a higher returning rate after juveniles have went in once, lastly, teenagers aren’t fully developed. Some people can argue against juvenile offenders receiving life sentences, it will keep the teenagers detained so they are not able to commit more crimes and a risk to the public. Violence in prisons is very serious. When juvenile…
Juveniles are known to not being the most intelligent offenders of all time. And to sentence them to life in prison for something other than heinous crimes is unconstitutional. I will be discussing why it is unconstitutional, certain court cases that pertain to this misfortune, and some medical reasons why juveniles should not be held accountable all the time In many states many judges are forced to give a juvenile the life sentence without being able to take anything into consideration like their home environment or the facts about the case. They have to give them life in prison because that is the law in the state itself.…
Pathways into female delinquency, in our textbook (Juvenile Justice in America) it talks about how researchers believe there are three steps down the pathway into female delinquency. Researchers feel that the first step for females into the juvenile justice system is victimization. This sexually abuse is believed to happen to girls at the age of thirteen and fourteen years of age on the average and is usually committed by a parent, sibling or other family member. One of the main reasons females run away from home is because of sexually abused that happen to them at home.…
After visiting the web link provided in the instructions for this week’s discussion task, I read what was basically an abstract for the full 40-page report. This exposed me to an overview of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI) and how successful the program became and continues to grow. But, I wanted to know more specifically what JDAI is before recognizing the impressive statistical achievements this program has reported.…
Every man, woman, and child that want to help combat drug use and addiction need to make themselves available to individual family members, friends, and even volunteer for support groups. The key is early intervention before a life of crime begins. The criminal justice system is overcrowded with alcohol and drug abusers. The rate of recidivism in the U.S. is estimated to be about two‐thirds, which means that two‐thirds of released inmates will be re‐incarcerated within three years (Lise McKean & Ransford, 2004). Considering the fact that crime is complex to begin with, deciphering the drug-crime connection becomes very difficult, and the conclusions are necessarily that much more elusive and tentative (Bartol & Bartol, 2008).…