Everything has its cost. It all boils down to how much one is willing to pay. From the 1980’s to the 1990’s juvenile offenses prompted state policymakers to expand laws to put juveniles in adult court. States are on average spending millions to incarcerate youth in adult prisons. It costs on average $43,000 to house a youth offender in a juvenile facility. As a consequence, the tax payers save $57,000 by allowing adolescents to be tried in juvenile court. These statistics are per youth per year. Now imagine the 10,000 youths that come through the adult system yearly. The dollar amount of savings would be $570,000,000.
The implication of this not only makes the proposed policy change economically feasible, but helps cut cost to the taxpayers. Other supporters of change to this policy researched that it less expensive to keep youth in juvenile facilities versus adult ones. Charged and sentenced to severe terms of imprisonment for committing adult crimes, are the challenges many teens face today. For obvious reasons, this is not sound.
The bigger problems is 50% to 75% of them experience diagnosable mental health issues that go untreated (Cocozza, 2000). For example, the two teen girls, Morgan …show more content…
The girls were caught in pursuit of Slender Man’s mansion several miles away from the crime scene to report their loyal act of murder. The girls, after being apprehended, pled not guilty to the attack on the grounds of insanity. The court judge concluded that the severity of the crime was subject to be heard in adult court. This analysis will focus on whether or not juveniles should be charged as adults in these precise situations. Furthermore, it will be taken into consideration the concerns, relevance to other systems, criticism, positives from this duality, and clinical impact
The implication of this not only makes the proposed policy change economically feasible, but helps cut cost to the taxpayers. Other supporters of change to this policy researched that it less expensive to keep youth in juvenile facilities versus adult ones. Charged and sentenced to severe terms of imprisonment for committing adult crimes, are the challenges many teens face today. For obvious reasons, this is not sound.
The bigger problems is 50% to 75% of them experience diagnosable mental health issues that go untreated (Cocozza, 2000). For example, the two teen girls, Morgan …show more content…
The girls were caught in pursuit of Slender Man’s mansion several miles away from the crime scene to report their loyal act of murder. The girls, after being apprehended, pled not guilty to the attack on the grounds of insanity. The court judge concluded that the severity of the crime was subject to be heard in adult court. This analysis will focus on whether or not juveniles should be charged as adults in these precise situations. Furthermore, it will be taken into consideration the concerns, relevance to other systems, criticism, positives from this duality, and clinical impact