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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…

This incident happened in the City of Auburn, County of King, Washington. On 4-6-2016 at about 1955 hrs I was dispatched to 12704 SE 295th ST for the report of a stolen vehicle. Dispatched advised the reporting party, Ikhra Mohamed, was 911 to report that her vehicle was stolen and she believed that her brother, Diriye Mohamed, was the likely suspect. I knew all involved parties as I was recently at the address for a dispute and sighting of a juvenile runaway. During that incident, Ikhra…

Ciavarella was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The goal of juvenile court has always been rehabilitation, but it was a revolving door of punishment and incarceration under former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella” (Kalinowski,…

juvenile incarceration in California the community needs of East Los Angeles have changed. California is rated among the worst states by placing a large amount of juveniles in detention and correction facilities from the ages of 10-21. (Cite) In 2002, California was ranked 46th out the 50 states with the rate of 392 youth in detention and correctional facilities. (Cite) There were a total of 53,830 juveniles incarcerated by police and a total of 31,081 juveniles were accused of committing a…

understand the consequences of incarceration for juveniles, and be informed about the alternatives to incarceration. In order to discuss the alternatives to incarceration for juveniles, one must understand why there is a need for the alternatives. Detention centers were originally intended to hold…

positive changing experience for troubled teens instead of a horrible time that effects the reason of their lives in a negative way. Youth incarceration is when a young adult younger than eighteen is sentenced to serve a certain amount of time in a detention facility or an adult prison if the crime is big enough for that form of punishment. Nearly 55,000 young persons were detained in residential placements in 2013 (Child Trends, 2015). People tend to ignore youth incarceration because they view…

Today, more youths are involved in gangs, murders, and assaults than history has shown. So, if these children are capable of committing adult crimes, shouldn’t they face adult consequences? It seems that the severity of juvenile crime has risen so much, that it is hard to distinct it from adult crimes. On the other hand, most adult offenders we find today, who commit murder or assault are not first time offenders. The unfortunate thing is that a survey given by the Pretrial Services Resource…

legislation surrounding children creating an issue in the protection of their rights. An example of this is the royal commission into the treatment of sentenced minors at the Don Dale juvenile detention center after the laws passed by the Northern Territory about head coverings and the treatment of juveniles in detention centers. The issue with this mostly was that there was such a large proportion of young people being mistreated and the blatant abuse of CROC and also the Convention against…

of people in this society and just let everyone live their lives the way they want to, the world will be a better place. There are a lot of ways that society can help defiant teenagers without automatically just expecting them to go to Juvenile detention centers. Everybody has rough patches in life and everybody makes mistakes. Society needs to find better ways to help these defiant teens, it can be as easy as just listening to the teen and their…

spent my day observing juvenile detention hearings and a drug court trial in Mercer County, New Jersey. For my first observation, I went to Mercer Family Division in Mercer County, New Jersey. I observed several juvenile detention hearings. I asked one of my previous supervisors if I could sit in with her during her time in court. Overall the process for each child went relatively briefly. The detention center has two buses that transport the juveniles from the detention centers to the…