Introduction Taken that all countries are ran in different ways, our juvenile justice system is the biggest. We have the strongest alliance to Canada, which you might think that our justice system would be similar, but they 're not. I will discuss the juvenile justice system in place in Canada and identify the differences and similarities we as the United States has compared to them.
Historical Makeup:
Dating back to 1908, Canada passed the first juvenile justice law currently known as the Juvenile Delinquent Acts (JDA). Passing it was to distinguish the younger offenders from the adults, this way the youth didn 't receive adult punishments. Instead of being labeled as a criminal they were given the title misguided and misdirected juveniles. …show more content…
Mostly in Canada the judge who deals with the juvenile based cases are overloaded with adult cases as well. On the alternative side, the judges that deal with the juvenile cases who are also responsible for the cases of the family law cases in Canada (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). It is only in the area of Quebec that a special judge is kept for the cases of the adolescents who deals entirely with the cases of children welfare and justice of the youth. The judge has the right to exclude that public from the court whose presence would be harm for the youth. Usually public is allowed to access the …show more content…
In these types of circumstances the acceptable practices and the legal standards hold importance and are considered.
Compare and Contrast of the United States Juvenile system with Canadian Juvenile system
There is no national juvenile system in the United States of America. A decentralized approach has been adopted in the U.S while a centralized approach exists in the Canada. The system of the juvenile varies from state to state (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). Children should treated in a distinct manner form the Adults was realized by Canada as well as United States after which special juvenile system for the youth was developed. In the early 1990s, the criminal responsibility age was established as seven in Canada and the United States. However, currently the criminal responsibility age is set to 12 in Canada and it the age varies from state to state in the United
States (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). Plenty of the states in the U.S have ten as the minimum age to which a young child could be transferred to the court of adults. New legislation were introduced in Canada in the early 2000s while at this time the U.S dealing with the transfer to adult court provisions. Moreover, in the U.S much of the violence had been created by black and
Historical Makeup:
Dating back to 1908, Canada passed the first juvenile justice law currently known as the Juvenile Delinquent Acts (JDA). Passing it was to distinguish the younger offenders from the adults, this way the youth didn 't receive adult punishments. Instead of being labeled as a criminal they were given the title misguided and misdirected juveniles. …show more content…
Mostly in Canada the judge who deals with the juvenile based cases are overloaded with adult cases as well. On the alternative side, the judges that deal with the juvenile cases who are also responsible for the cases of the family law cases in Canada (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). It is only in the area of Quebec that a special judge is kept for the cases of the adolescents who deals entirely with the cases of children welfare and justice of the youth. The judge has the right to exclude that public from the court whose presence would be harm for the youth. Usually public is allowed to access the …show more content…
In these types of circumstances the acceptable practices and the legal standards hold importance and are considered.
Compare and Contrast of the United States Juvenile system with Canadian Juvenile system
There is no national juvenile system in the United States of America. A decentralized approach has been adopted in the U.S while a centralized approach exists in the Canada. The system of the juvenile varies from state to state (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). Children should treated in a distinct manner form the Adults was realized by Canada as well as United States after which special juvenile system for the youth was developed. In the early 1990s, the criminal responsibility age was established as seven in Canada and the United States. However, currently the criminal responsibility age is set to 12 in Canada and it the age varies from state to state in the United
States (Caputo & Vallee, 2010). Plenty of the states in the U.S have ten as the minimum age to which a young child could be transferred to the court of adults. New legislation were introduced in Canada in the early 2000s while at this time the U.S dealing with the transfer to adult court provisions. Moreover, in the U.S much of the violence had been created by black and