Juvenile delinquency in the United States

With the increasing amount of crime committed by juveniles, officials are trying to develop with ways to prevent such transgressions from occurring, usually when tried as juvenile the punishment is less severe. Some people believe that juveniles should be no less accountable than adults and treating them as such may help deter crime. “Others believe that they do not have an adult’s mental capacity to judge and allowing them to be tried as an adult is an unjust” (Mason, Chapman, Chang & Simons…

responsibility; in the United States of America, your eighteenth birthday is when the judicial system can legally press charges on you as an adult. But recently the juvenile court system has been tried more youth as adults for committing heinous crimes. If as a society we recognize that there is a difference between a 16 year old thing and an 18 year old level of cognition, why do we continually send youth to be treated like adults in a criminal court? Due to the lack cognitive awareness of a…

Every state has child abuse reporting and protection laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect children from neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological abuse. Reporting is the first step in the child protection process. Anyone who suspects a child is being abused can file a report with child protective services or law enforcement. Most states have mandatory reporting laws for people who have jobs working with children such as school employees including teachers, physicians,…

Probation in Juveniles Through the court systems in the United States there is a major mash and mix up between the juvenile court system and the adult court system. More than 70,000 juveniles were incarcerated in youth prisons or detention in 2010. Case studies show that more than 500,000 juveniles are taken to confinement centers every year. Not including the juveniles who by pass the detention center and make their way into the adult court system where they are later tried. Juveniles stand out…

Lovell Mrs. Dyer English 12 01 October 2016 Trying Juveniles as Adults Crime has been around longer than anyone on this earth, so it is nothing new. Crime is more related to adults, but over the years the term “juvenile” is widely known as a child offender. These juveniles commit most or worst than the same crimes as adults but do not receive the same sentencing or punishment. Through series of research over the years, the theory of trying these juveniles as adults is in need to be enforced…

As a result, juvenile justice has been reformed to reflect a fair judicial process. Ultimately, there is a continuum of juvenile justice models that are currently being practiced. Some countries emphasize the need to provide treatment to juvenile delinquents, while other countries emphasize the need to hold these juveniles accountable for their actions. In the United States, juvenile justice tends to fall towards the justice end of the continuum.…

subject. Mental health issues are a leading cause of disability in the United States. Over 25% percent of the general population encounters mental illness annually (Hebert, 2009). Current statistics state that 1 in 5 people will, at some point in their adult lives, experience a form of mental illness (Gardner, 2015). This equates to over 57 million people, and prices can rise upward of $190 billion annually in losses for the United States (Hebert, 2009). However, this number does not account for…

due to the non-stop violence that’s been going on for the past 30 years, property crimes have decreased as well. Gun homicides have gone down nearly 49% since the 90’s. There are 73.8 million youth under the age of 18 in the United States in 2012, 1.3 million of those juveniles have had criminal cases and that is just a statistic for those whom have gotten caught. I know plenty of young teens where I am from in Omaha, Nebraska that go down the wrong path that don’t have the right guidance they…

crimes in and out of the United States. They introduced new methods of preventing crime by establishing programs throughout the country to reduce levels of crime. By establishing effective programs, law enforcers were able to reduce the number of crimes committed nationally in 2014 by point two percent when compared to statistics in 2013. The rate of crime is said to have dropped by five percent in the past few years. Due to the instability of crime across the United States, effective crime…

deeper issues that need to be evaluated. Juvenile peers are very aware when kids their age cause trouble and get sent away to a juvenile center or treatment facility. Recent studies show that around 500,000 of the youth today will be sent to a juvenile center each year. There are around 75,000 juveniles incarcerated in facilities and the number seems to only grow as times change. The juvenile justice system is constantly changing around in the United States with influences from other systems…