Youth activism

Identifying Information G. F. is a 42 year old, bi-racial, single, heterosexual male. G. F. lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before being detain at the Allegheny County Jail on September 24, 2016. Client states that he does not have any aliases. Reason for Referral G. F. was referred from the Allegheny County Jail to Allegheny County Treatment Alternative (ACTA). G. F. presents with Opioid Use Disorder (F11.10), severe and Cocaine Use Disorder (F14.10), severe. Client stated that before…

Like I have said before, I am proud to be a First Generation student. I feel like we are the minority, though. I am glad that I have a classroom full of people that I have something in common with. With being the minority, it is sometimes hard to make connections with people. I feel like some people look down on First Generation students and others think that it is very cool. I know someone has told me, “Wow, I can’t imagine what it is like for you.” So far, I don’t think it has had much of…

Edward Humes’s book, No Matter How Loud I Shout, follows the life of seven teenage boys who are working their way through the juvenile justice system and also serving time for their crimes. No Matter How Loud I Shout provides a clear and vivid picture in readers mind about the juvenile system and how it operates. It shows readers how unjust some situations in court can be. Humes spent a year researching California’s juvenile justice system and his book was inspired by his experience. In this…

confirmed that youth offenders experience a significantly higher rate of diagnosable mental and behavioral health disorders in relation to the general youth population. 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…

A juvenile has come to the juvenile justice court as a confirmed suspect of raping a 23-year-old woman. What decision will you end up making? Will you do justice for the juvenile and the victim? He beat her with an iron rod. He inserted it into her body till it went all the way up and yanked it out, and with it, her intestines. As she shouted for him to stop, he screamed at her, 'Saali, mar! (Die) '. Despite all this, the law calls him a juvenile. Her only fault was that she was a woman and…

India’s Juvenile Justice System Juvenile delinquents have been around since the beginning of time, it is no different in India. Ever since there have been prisons juvenile have routinely been housed in adult prisons right alongside adult prisoners. In this paper I am going to cover the historical makeup of the main laws that have to deal with juvenile justice in India. I will also cover rehabilitation system and what it does for juvenile delinquents in India, the legal system and its traditions,…

transformation. National research clearly shows that placing juveniles in the adult justice system does not reduce recidivism levels and actually causes higher levels of subsequent crime. A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study shows that placing youth in the adult justice system leads to a thirty-four percent increase in recidivism and a seventy-seven percent increase in the…

Juveniles being sentenced in adult court is becoming more of a common issue in today’s society with such crimes as murder being committed by the youth. This has lead people to believe that they should be sentenced in adult court, in order to scare or prevent the juvenile form attempting to commit the crime again. Sentencing juveniles to adult court does not justify a reason for them committing the crime again or violent acts. Juveniles differ from adults, in the way that they are not developed…

documentary, it showed a 94% success rate and because of that a few more programs were created in other jurisdictions. In addition to that the inmates get to counsel these youths through group discussions and use one-on-one interactions and as well as being these juveniles mentors and having them attempt to deter these youths from a life of crime which will help reduce dropout rates and increase school attendance rates. Another pro is that the juveniles’ sentencing is no longer than one day for…

organizational culture requires a strategic mindset of how to change the status quo. Cultural change, for example, is often driven by having the right people who share a set of beliefs and philosophies. In Missouri, we now operate on the belief that all youth desire to do well and succeed. This sounds simple, but it reflects a significant change from the old model” (Decker 2010). Shifting the culture surrounding juvenile delinquents from a type of resigned hopelessness that the system is what…