Children are introduced to the juvenile justice system because they are misbehaving in school by maybe shooting a spitball at a student, being disruptive, or even using a curse word, but those kinds of misbehavior in school are not delinquent acts and a lot of kids are committing juvenile acts in school that we don’t know about and those kids are exposing others to their acts. Juveniles don’t get treated the same as adults when they break the law, that’s why we have the term juvenile justice. Juvenile justice is the area of criminal law that is applied to a person not old enough to be held responsible for their criminal actions and juvenile delinquency is what we call crime that has been committed by someone who has not yet reached the age of majority.
In the United States, you usually begin school at 6 years old and enter high school at about the age of 14 or 15 and in most states the age of majority is 18 years old, which is the age you usually graduate high school. The juvenile justice system comes into play with most of the kids that commit delinquent acts for an average …show more content…
Thornberry, Moore, and Christenson (1985) said that dropping out of school is positively related to delinquency and that children that are suspended from school, expelled or being held back in school increased the likelihood of being in juvenile detention and that most theorists agree that negative experiences in school act as powerful forces that help project juveniles into delinquency. Yablonksy and Haskell (1988) have discussed how school experiences may be related to delinquency, if a child experiences failure at school every day; he or she not only learns little but also becomes frustrated and unhappy. (Juvenile Justice: A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice. pg.
In the United States, you usually begin school at 6 years old and enter high school at about the age of 14 or 15 and in most states the age of majority is 18 years old, which is the age you usually graduate high school. The juvenile justice system comes into play with most of the kids that commit delinquent acts for an average …show more content…
Thornberry, Moore, and Christenson (1985) said that dropping out of school is positively related to delinquency and that children that are suspended from school, expelled or being held back in school increased the likelihood of being in juvenile detention and that most theorists agree that negative experiences in school act as powerful forces that help project juveniles into delinquency. Yablonksy and Haskell (1988) have discussed how school experiences may be related to delinquency, if a child experiences failure at school every day; he or she not only learns little but also becomes frustrated and unhappy. (Juvenile Justice: A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice. pg.