The United States is known as no stranger to criminal correctional needs. Throughout the United States history there have been ways in dealing with those who had broken a law, and it usually involved some sort of court system and possibly jail time. When one looks into correctional systems there is one thing that is missing: children. While there has always been a place for adults who commit crimes to go, those under eighteen did not and are seriously overlooked in criminal history. Before the 1800s the United States only had one criminal correctional system, and that was adult prisons. It was not until 1824 when the House of Refuge formed did youths become separated from adults in prisons. While youths now were not confined in prisons with
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The second protection, status offenses, is in affect to make sure that if a minor commits an offense such as running away, using or possessing alcohol or tobacco, that would not be considered a crime if an adult committed it, that the juvenile is not sent to juvenile detention facility. Instead, this protection focuses immensely on alternative rehabilitation. This meant that other services such as counseling, peer-mentoring, and community-building started to become implicated in the rehabilitation of juveniles in need, which is currently the main focus in the juvenile criminal justice system. The third protection is decently straightforward – a youth is not allowed to be in an adult jail, except for certain circumstances. Lastly, the fourth protection is also incredibly important because it focuses on reducing the disproportionate population of minatory youths in juvenile detentions. This protection started a focus on hate crime programs for youth where the community participates in education in order to reduce the racial inequality. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 provides youths with youth orientated protections, finally giving juveniles rights that are fit to protect them as children. However, the act was passed in 1974 and society has changed a lot since them. The American Bar Association (ABA) currently wants to update the act. ABA would like to extend the act, supporting prevention programs in order to help improve the juvenile justice system and the planning that goes along with alternative systems. Along with this, ABA also wants to focus more on how to help states with racial inequalities within individual systems (Mcmillion, 2015). The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
The second protection, status offenses, is in affect to make sure that if a minor commits an offense such as running away, using or possessing alcohol or tobacco, that would not be considered a crime if an adult committed it, that the juvenile is not sent to juvenile detention facility. Instead, this protection focuses immensely on alternative rehabilitation. This meant that other services such as counseling, peer-mentoring, and community-building started to become implicated in the rehabilitation of juveniles in need, which is currently the main focus in the juvenile criminal justice system. The third protection is decently straightforward – a youth is not allowed to be in an adult jail, except for certain circumstances. Lastly, the fourth protection is also incredibly important because it focuses on reducing the disproportionate population of minatory youths in juvenile detentions. This protection started a focus on hate crime programs for youth where the community participates in education in order to reduce the racial inequality. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 provides youths with youth orientated protections, finally giving juveniles rights that are fit to protect them as children. However, the act was passed in 1974 and society has changed a lot since them. The American Bar Association (ABA) currently wants to update the act. ABA would like to extend the act, supporting prevention programs in order to help improve the juvenile justice system and the planning that goes along with alternative systems. Along with this, ABA also wants to focus more on how to help states with racial inequalities within individual systems (Mcmillion, 2015). The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency