Juvenile delinquency

Colonial Puritan philosophy regarding juvenile behavior was enacted into law, in 1646 Massachusetts passed the Stubborn Child Law, which created the first status offense which was an act considered illegal for minors only. Also, according to the common law, a youth under the age of 14 may or could be adjudged incapable of discerning right from wrong this appeared to the court and jury that he could discern between good and evil. These trials and punishments were based on age and any one older…

In the past, juvenile offenders were held to the same standards and sanctions as adult offenders. The history of juvenile offenders can be set back to the middle ages era. There were many different methods on how the law dealt with juvenile offenders within this time period that are consider unethical today. In this time, state decided to just let the parents deal with this delinquency behavior. In a primitive age of children law, there were no real methods on how to adjudicate juvenile…

The research involved with juvenile crime points to many adverse consequences. Juvenile crime can negatively affect the individual committing crime, victims affected by crime, families of victims/criminals, and society. It’s obvious that the people most directly affected by juvenile crime are the victims, however the individual responsible for committing crime can also suffer from undesirable adverse consequences. The juvenile who commits a crime may be unable to foresee the dark road they’re…

Put, C. E., & Stamps, G. J .J .M. (2012). "Differences between juvenile offenders with and without intellectual disability in offense type and risk factors." Research in Developmental Disabilities, 33(6) page 1905-1913. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebsco.host.com /ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=5e5c59b2-afdc-45ba-a8a8-0711df33bea3%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4209&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=EJ1042831&db=eric In this study, juvenile offenders in the U.S. were analyzed to review the differences…

It is essential that mandates are created on a federal level in order to regulate judge decisions on waiving juvenile cases to adult criminal court. To maintain the current downward trend of youth violence in America for the long term, preventative measures should be emphasized more than punishment. Juvenile court systems were created with the protection of child welfare through rehabilitation in mind, but current practices allow judges to avoid this purpose by sending children to adult…

Juvenile justice is a slightly new notion from the transformations of laws associated to youthful offenders. Early implications for juveniles sought a rehabilitation approach; there was no room for punishment in the early juvenile justice system. The juvenile justice system that was implemented when most offenses were school yard fights was made to be ever changing and almost always reforming. Approximately 2 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes, bear in mind only half…

From a societal perspective, one of the main issues today is how the juvenile offender can best be served within the criminal justice system. Due to the long-range consequences of how the young person is handled, this topic has become increasingly significant as a measure of real justice within society. In order to minimize…

pushed into that type of delinquent environment, raised in the streets and with those who engage in an unlawful behavior. Therefore being pushed into the Detention of Criminal Justice System having it become more difficult to change the status quo of juveniles being raised in an unfortunate…

between crime and characteristics associated with social structures; however, those social structural characteristics are not necessary to explain crime at the individual level. It is also argued that the theory only explains some types of crime and delinquency but not all (Bernard, 1987). Benard (1987) argues that Merton does not make any assertion about the psychological state of the individual in situations of social structural strain. Merton attributes normal psychological states to the…

Our National History day project is based on how Madalyn Murray O'hair's Supreme Court win, removing a majority of religious teachings in the public schools has been the major contribution to the increase of juvenile delinquency and student misbehavior. Ever since we've enrolled into a private catholic school from being in a public we've both noticed how different the public school system was drastically different. The major contrast we've noticed from being enrolled in a public school was that…