Police departments should only retain juvenile records when necessary for investigations or formal referrals to the juvenile or criminal justice systems. Police officers should avoid the stigmatizing effect of juvenile records by retaining only minimal records necessary for investigation and referral in accordance with Juvenile Records and Information Systems standards for retention of police records (Kaufman, I. 1979). This is important because the holding of many records can affect the juvenile in the long run. For example let’s say we have a juvenile that keeps getting arresting for smoking weed inside a building and transppacing. The more the juvenile keeps getting arresting for this the more reports he will have an at the minute the he commits a crime or something that will give him time in jail these record would be open and these arrest will be used against that child which could even add more time to his sentencing.
2. The majority of the juvenile research concludes that serious harm can be done to juveniles simply being referred into the formal juvenile justice process. Police officers should really take into consideration that they send for the formal process (Kaufman, I. 1979).At …show more content…
The juvenile needs to be as important as the adult criminal justice system. They need to pass on better laws to protect the juvenile. It is true that the adult and juvenile justice system are separated and the punishment varies but we still have many juveniles waived to the criminal court and punished severely. Yes there are many juvenile committing serious crime but the courts needs to take into consideration the child experience and past history. Many of these juveniles are bad from then start but others are just abused children. Others are only though how to be bad and only have bad influence around them (Law Enforcement’s Leadership Role in Juvenile Justice Reform,
2. The majority of the juvenile research concludes that serious harm can be done to juveniles simply being referred into the formal juvenile justice process. Police officers should really take into consideration that they send for the formal process (Kaufman, I. 1979).At …show more content…
The juvenile needs to be as important as the adult criminal justice system. They need to pass on better laws to protect the juvenile. It is true that the adult and juvenile justice system are separated and the punishment varies but we still have many juveniles waived to the criminal court and punished severely. Yes there are many juvenile committing serious crime but the courts needs to take into consideration the child experience and past history. Many of these juveniles are bad from then start but others are just abused children. Others are only though how to be bad and only have bad influence around them (Law Enforcement’s Leadership Role in Juvenile Justice Reform,