Detention

Everyone makes mistakes. Unfortunately, often times those mistakes lead individuals to become incarcerated. I want to be in law enforcement because I have seen how crime can have a negative impact on communities. Growing up in a St. Petersburg, Florida, I have seen how drug dealers and crime harmed communities, and affected families. I believe that receiving my Bachelors of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Studies will equip me with the tools that I need to be a successful law enforcement…

one-year-old kid - the society raves over it and the murderer receives life imprisonment and death penalty in some cases. A juvenile commits the exact crime with absurd reasons - society raves over it, but the juvenile receives only 3 years in a detention center and there’s no certainty that the juvenile won’t do the same thing again. If juveniles are given chances, then adults should be given chances to make amends too. Juveniles and adults are both humans, both commit mistakes along the way,…

Little People Big World Abstract: Should juveniles ever be tried as an adult? That seems to be the question of the day at this time in society. This paper helps unfold the facts about trying juveniles either way, and the legal information as to what certain states hold laws about it. It also discusses the pros and cons and what the end result is of the individual after it is all said and done in certain situations. No matter your opinion, if you want to grasp a better one about this, then…

Juvenile Justice has undergone countless ways to try and prevent adolescents from committing another crime after released so that they do not end up in a juvenile facility again. It has become a controversy across the world debating what the best solution to this would be. The article, Kids Behind Bars, introduced a new way to avoid this happening to the children committing crimes. The article explains how a small town in Chicago, Illinois thought of the idea that, “As soon as a young person…

on youth confinement is “sticker shock” (2014). There is a criterion which affirms that temporary confinement of juvenile offenders is still overused in the United States. An established and expanding embodiment of research shows that pre-trial detention and post-adjudication confinement for youth can have remarkably adverse consequences for the juveniles’ ability to get back on the right track.…

circumstances surrounding an offense (ACLU, 2008). With increased support of zero tolerance policies, youth are constantly at risk of being victimized by the school-to-prison pipeline (ACLU, 2008). Such policies have had a detrimental affect on rates of detention, suspension, expulsion, and even arrests that youth, particularly those with mental and behavioral health disabilities, are experiencing as a response to minor offenses that could be resolved by school administration (Amurao, 2013).…

correctional facilities will face some form of sexual victimization during their sentence. These high levels are compared to only ten percent for the rest of the adult prison population and nine and a half percent for those juveniles held in a juvenile detention facility. These same juveniles are also faced with higher levels of violence, being twice as likely to be beaten by facility staff and fifty percent more likely to be attacked by an adult inmate with a weapon. Overall, forty-six…

today’s society there are an increasing number of juvenile delinquents, with that, so is the rate of mental health disorders. More than 2 million youth are arrested every year in the United Sates; more than 600,000 are processed through juvenile detention centers; and more than 93,000 are placed in secure juvenile correctional facilities ( Snyder & Sickmund, 2006). With one and every five kids in the system having a treatable mental disorder, the juvenile justice system should have an…

Chlamydia screening for all females in juvenile detention amenities is suggested at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Torrone et al., 2015). Recognizing common factors of chlamydia could allow only specific screenings which would then reduce costs while still revealing many infections (Torrone et al. 2015). The study used various factors to classify features affiliated with chlamydia among females aged 12 to 18 years old in a juvenile detention facility in San Diego during January…

and the UNSMRAJJ 'The Beijing Rules ', both of which maintain that “children should be deprived of liberty for the shortest appropriate period of time” (AIHW, 2016). Moreover, according to the CCPA 1987 Section 33 (2) on the scale of sentencing, detention is only considered when all other sentencing options have been contemplated and deemed “wholly inappropriate” (Marien, 2011, p. 6). It is also understood by the youth justice system that separation from family can be detrimental to a child’s…