The Juvenile

show that there are little to no after school programs geared towards at risk-youth, and also to show that there should be more if any after school programs should be granted to more of the behaviorally challenged students. The School system and the juvenile justice department should look at how we fund certain programs that are not helping our more delinquent offenders. Kids that have had over 2 dealings with the law should be granted first priority for special after school care. Most of the…

those choices may include gang violence, sneaking out, vandalizing public property, and becoming victims of crime. Juvenile curfews could prevent all of those things from happening during the later hours of the night. Juvenile curfews keep teens out of trouble because they protect teens from becoming victims, strengthen parental control, and decrease juvenile crime rates. Juvenile curfews keep teens from falling victims to robbery, assault, and rape crimes. In many cases and reports, “index…

Risk-need responsivity Juveniles today are becoming an increased concern in the field of criminal justice; it is imperative that appropriate measures must be taken to determine the precise causation behind the criminal activities of juvenile’s entering into the juvenile justice system. Juveniles who have been subjected to domestic violence, sexual/physical abuse, come from broken homes (single parent homes), obtain mental health issues (ADD, ADHD, conduct disorder), are deemed to be at a…

In the early 1600s, Parens Patriae was the approach that started the foundation of the early Juvenile Justice System. This concept was operated in Chancery Court that referred to the king’s role as the ‘father of the country’ and granted the power of the state to act on behalf of the child and assure protection as would a parent (Gulledge, 2015b). During this time and for many decades, children were treated as if they were adults. They were pushed into the workforce, which limited their…

Juvenile justice is the time when a person is not old enough to hold responsible of their crime. Many young people are committing adult like crimes such as murders, rape, and other crimes. Now the juvenile justice system is cracking down on these teens and kids’ for vicious crimes. Juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes because juveniles have the choice to do these crimes. The author's argument is that teens and kids should be punished their crimes. Teens and kids are…

It is said that children growing up in homes where they have criminal parents is one of the strongest predictors in whether or not a child will become juvenile delinquents. Children who experienced parental incarceration at age 6 or younger were more than twice as likely to be involved in the criminal justice system as young adults (http://aspe.hhs.gov) since most children that have an incarcerated parent…

Restorative justice is used in a community setting and has many applications including neighborhood accountability boards where many members of the community volunteer to be involved with the process and juvenile conference committees focusing on reversing harm done by juvenile offenders (Hasset-Walker, 2002, Bazemore, 2005). McCold (2008) sums up the central plan of restorative justice as a victim/offender in person meeting where they decide how to address the sanctions to the crime (Cullen…

Although the theory used focus’s more on juveniles who have lost a parent, more recently, theorists have chosen to focus on maltreatment by the parents, as it has shown to be more “consequential to subsequent delinquency than the death of a parent.” (Hollist, 2009, p 380). When a child is neglected…

should not be like that. When the young person committed a violent crime, should he or she get the same punishments as an adult such as life without parole or death penalty? Is this fair if juvenile get the same punishments like an adult? These are the main questionings at the debate regarding juvenile system. Juvenile Justice is the system that addressed for the youth who are not old enough to held responsible for caught by committing the crime that they are committed. Throughout the history,…

when the illegal action was compelled, or when the action was uncalled-for. Another point that Steinberg and Scott present support for is that young people should not be held to the equivalent measures of criminal accountability as adults, since juveniles' ability to have good judgement is minimized, they are less apt to withstand forcible influence, and their personality is still going through development. Lastly, Steinberg and Scott argue that the uniqueness of adolescence as a diminishing…