Juvenile Justice Essay

that it changed how juveniles are viewed and treated in the juvenile justice system. The fact that children were property and had no rights subjected them to sometimes cruel and harsh punishments for extended periods of time. I agree with the court’s decision that this type of justice was not providing any rehabilitation, but rather harsh penalties for what would be considered citational or misdemeanor adult offenses. In re Gault played a major role shifting the way juveniles were considered a…

The justice system in the United States is a huge industry. In 2015, there were over 13 million adults arrested. Also in 2015 there were 1 million juveniles arrested. This means that a large part of the justice system focuses on the handling of juveniles. Despite the fact that the rate of juvenile arrests has declined by as much as 65% from 1996 to 2014, the rate is still high. For every thirty three juveniles, one was arrested in 2014. This is a large contrast to 1996, where one in every twelve…

In our criminal justice system, juveniles are treated far differently than adults, but many suffer similar issues. Amongst juvenile offenders, there is an overwhelming number of youths who have a mental illness, making it necessary for actions to be taken to help individuals. In the system, mental illnesses must be identified do crucial services can be provided to provide reoffending. Our juvenile justice system needs to identify the needs and concerns of mental illness, address the types that…

judgment in a situation with moral issues. The juvenile system was developed in the industrial revolution period when the children started entering the workplace. The juvenile justice system has been dealing with ethical issues since so many years. From the time the juvenile court has developed, a lot of ethical questions have been raised. The biggest ethical issue right now in the juvenile justice system is kids being charged as adults. Juveniles are being treated as adults. For example,…

In the United States the juvenile justice system is very harsh and can be unruly on children, even though it claims to rehabilitate and not make children feel like criminals. As young as twelve children are being charged as adults with homicide, murder and other high degrees of crimes. Some would say the system would be a bit of a joke and others find this to be equal justice. This body of written work will go over why juveniles are treated the way they are in the justice system and how race…

Introduction The juvenile justice system has long been a topic of discussion. These discussions consisted of whether or not the system should exist at all and, after it was established, there was debate regarding what rights should and should not be granted to juveniles. The racial disparities that disproportionately affect African American and Latino youth soon became a large part of this discussion. This caused a number of questions to arise regarding the affect race has in juvenile justice…

not all, children, juveniles, and adult offenders are given the opportunity to bypass certain sanctions of their punishment. Thus, the question remains, why must juveniles be sentenced to life without parole, instead of having the opportunity to serve their sentence through a community corrections program, such as probation or parole? This information is highly important to determine because it provides society with a better understanding of the sanctions in the Juvenile Justice…

A broad array of stakeholders interact with detained juveniles on any given day. Social service agencies, community-based substance abuse treatment programs, law makers, Judges, lawyers, preachers, teachers, mental health professionals and youth advocates just to name a few. These stakeholders provide resources and or services that contribute to the juvenile justice system. These relationships shape the environment in which treatment and community-based research takes place. A paradigm is…

adolescents in the juvenile justice courts. These key components showed that unlike the research has shown above it wasn’t just addiction that affects users but other internal factors. Juveniles in the justice courts receive less harsh sentence than adults, however; instead of being cared for and have their problems looked upon. They are just shoved in the court 's system without much help on the reason behind their actions. The article resulted that a key contributor to whether a juvenile…

More specifically, Schubert and Mulvey (2014) reported that, “roughly 50 to 70 percent of juvenile offenders experience a diagnosable mental or behavioral health disorder, whereas only 9 to 13 percent of youth in the general population experience a diagnosable disorder” (p.3). Scholars have also established that youth offenders with such disorders face greater risks at falling victim to the juvenile justice system. Youth with emotional, mental and behavioral health disabilities are more likely…