Juvenile Justice Essay

“And I see the- you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can’t read now. And I know when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they’re not going to be able to make it in our society.”-Walter Dean Myers. If we do not take a stand to youth spending 15 to life in jail we’re not benefiting our society but instead we’re tearing it down. Not only are kids as young as 6 being sent to jail but also most of them are being charged with felony…

Juvenile Probation: Causes, Processes, Outcomes, and Effects on Juvenilely Delinquent Youth According to NeMoyer, McKitten, Prelic, Ebbecke, Foster, & Burkard, probation has been used more commonly for juvenile sentencing for over twenty years than any other form of formal disposition (2014.) Juvenile probation accounts for more than 60% of all juvenile delinquent dispositions. (NeMoyer et al., 2014.) Statistics show that 1.9 million juveniles were arrested during the year of 2009 (Barnert,…

the Arms Act, 1959. (v) The accused claimed that at the time of commission of the offence he was a juvenile under…

teenage brains are not yet fully developed, affecting the way a juvenile acts, thinks, and feels. It can have an affect on the actions a juvenile males, it can make them more likely to take risks than adults. During their teenage years, some people have not yet developed their morals. It is a time when they may start to. A child has not had enough time to develop their morals and fully distinguish right from wrong. They might have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time and git themselves…

The rise of gang activity amongst adolescents in the Wilmington, Delaware area was sited in a 2012 audit of the Juvenile Systems of Delaware stating that, “A 2012 review of Delaware Juvenile Justice System conducted by Comprehensive Strategy Group brought attention to Gang-related violence, making the assessment and addressing of gang violence as one of the highest priority recommendations. This recommendation…

are a vital part of the adult and juvenile justice system. These Amendments prohibit law enforcement or the government from caring on irrational searches and seizures, hinder law enforcement from forcing an individual to self-incriminate themselves in a case and guarantees an adult the right to a prompt trial by an unbiased jury. In contrast, juveniles are given some of the safeguards that entail the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment. This because the juvenile justice system is conducted in a…

the waiver of jurisdiction. Should juveniles who commit serious crimes be transferred to adult court? Why or why not? A waiver of jurisdiction applies to the command of the juvenile court that puts aside the court case of a juvenile that would have the authority had the wrongdoing been committed by an grown-up as defined by the Indiana State legislature (2014). Waiver is for the offense charged as well as each & every included offense(s). I think that juveniles who commit serious crimes…

before the “protective laws”. The laws that the government put in place when I was little that instated mandatory curfews, school metal detectors, and lowered the age of being tried as an adult from 18 to 16 because there wasn’t enough room in the juvenile detention system to hold all the troublemakers. All of these laws were necessary the crime rate among teens and even kids was going sky high. I don’t remember a time before the laws, but I heard about them from my parents, and in school. I…

Juvenile Justice What are juveniles some may ask? Well juveniles are a young person under the age of 18 at which ordinary prosecution is possible. A juvenile, a youngster, a teenager, are different from an adult. Hearing the word juvenile doesn’t consist of an adult. There are many teenagers who commit a crime at a young age. Some teenagers commit a crime for many reasons they have many things going on their mind they aren’t fully developed and they are immature. An adult on the other hand are…

They have signed the U.N. convention but have not ratified it hence they are not obligated to adhere to it. Under this system the law is formed differently for each state and the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts is waived without any due process when the juvenile is above a specified age and he/she commits a serious crime and transferred to an adult court. But this approach taken after the 1990s has had a negative impact on the children. Under such a system neither does the child…