The Juvenile

Adolescents tend get involved with juvenile delinquency for many reasons such as behavioral problems, lack of emotional regulation, no positive social skills, limited parent supervision, peer pressure, and the conditions of their living environments. The practices and approaches put in place to handle juvenile delinquents aim to rehabilitate and decrease the act of recidivism for all offenders. The two best approaches put in place to deal with juvenile delinquency are Restorative Justice…

Juvenile Forensic Psychology The article I selected is call “The Impact of Juveniles’ Ages and Levels of Psychosocial Maturity on Judges’ Opinions about Adjudicative Competence” (Cox, 2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did…

To understand how juveniles in Brazil are managed compared to adult you have to understand what is going on within the country’s economy. Brazil has seen an unprecedented spike in crime in adults and youth. The surge is a factor of Brazil’s booming economy; this causes a dilemma when a wide gap exist between rich, middle class and the poor, with the poor representing the largest group. The Brazilin children do not grow up with preschool and day care is almost no existent especially for the…

Introduction JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Lassen, S. R. (2006). Juvenile Delinquency. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development (Vol. 2, pp. 754-756). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE -Juvenile delinquency has traditionally been defined as behavior exhibited by children and adolescents that has legal ramifications, such as engaging in illegal activity (statutory and criminal). -Juvenile delinquents Deals with laws that are violated by committing a crime,they go through court. -The system was…

the high rates of juvenile incarceration in California the community needs of East Los Angeles have changed. California is rated among the worst states by placing a large amount of juveniles in detention and correction facilities from the ages of 10-21. (Cite) In 2002, California was ranked 46th out the 50 states with the rate of 392 youth in detention and correctional facilities. (Cite) There were a total of 53,830 juveniles incarcerated by police and a total of 31,081 juveniles were accused of…

After going over the various observations I made after watching twenty-one cases in juvenile court, was the differences between the juvenile court, to the adult court, and trends that I noticed while observing the hearings. The first difference I noticed was that the Johnson County juvenile court separated the order in which cases are tried, with the cases for less serious offenses first, then the juveniles who were detained were the last ones to be tried. The second difference I noticed was…

and probably for years to come das been affected by juvenile crime. It not only affects parents, siblings, teachers, neighbors, and all families involved. This also affects the victims of crime, the bystander, and the perpetrators. Although the delinquency rates are experiencing a decrease, this is not true in many cities the rate is still remaining high. In these high crime cities numerous programs have attempted to try and lower this juvenile rate, but while there are a few that can be…

Juvenile Justice Law enforcement's role with juvenile justice offenders weather its males or females within the ages of eighteen is very challenging because federal law shields juveniles that commits offences work towards successfully returning into the community. Another object that can pose a task for police is juveniles committing an unequal amount of crimes associated to their inhabitants. Also, a third thing that law enforcement agencies must deal with juveniles are As a newly appointed…

Family Integrated Transitions: A Promising Program for Juvenile Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders, First talks about how once children are released from the juvenile correctional centers, the successful progress made by children is lost upon the time of their release. Children with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders are at risk of relapse and re-entry into the juvenile correction system. The goal of the organization is to observe and identify the key Physiological, biological, and…

Next, there is a tremendous amount of thought occurring in the decision of whether or not a juvenile should be placed in some sort of detention facility (Moore, McArthur, & Saunders, 2013).Numerous factors are considered when removing a juvenile from his or her community. The juvenile justice system does not want to break connections that the youth has, these connections can include familial connections, social connections, or community connections. The court especially does not want to do…