Just Desert Model Of The Juvenile System

The juvenile system in California have only two options to the young teenagers: If you are lucky enough to get a judge that go deep with your background, you get to stay in the juvenile system if you are not lucky you get to spend the rest of your life in the adult system and that is what happened to seven young delinquents. The story of the seven cases of young teenagers from Eduard Humes “No matter How loud I Shout” book it show how the juvenile system only have two options: Treatment Model and the Just Desert Model. In this paper I will describe the treatment model and just desert model and the cons and pros for each model. The Treatment model is based on the belief that the basic mission of juvenile justice is to rehabilitate young offenders. …show more content…
The punishment they receive must be equal to the seriousness of the offense (Class Lecture). One of the examples is Ronald Duncan’s case, according to Eduard Humes, Ronald was arrested for the double homicide after killing the employees of where he used to work. Ronald committed his crime nine days before his 16th birthday making him a minor and he had to stay within the juvenile system. “A minor under the age of sixteen cannot be given a death sentence, and must be released with a clean record at the age of twenty-five” (Class Lecture). Despite of committing first-degree murder the court ruled that because he was a minor when he committed the crime he could not go to the adult …show more content…
George also known as a 300 kid a program that allows abuse and abandoned children that are being care and parented by the state. (Class Lecture), according to Humes, George was a delinquent kid, her mother being in prison and his dad died early on, her sister died in car crash and his brother in jail, it was harsh for him to stay out of trouble even he was a smart kid the juvenile system he did not treat him the right way. He never received any counseling despite his emotional condition was moved from foster family to foster family and the lack of family, turned him into a delinquent making him to commit serious crime for example he attempted murder with his gang and he was tried as a adult and he was charge for tried for armed robbery. Even though he did not actually commit the crime he was sent to the adult system, because he being at the age of sixteen he was treated as an adult. This is one of the cases that the judge who was in charge of this case should have look into George background because being a 300 kid. the judge should of analyze more George background of where he was coming