Question 1
Juvenile transfer laws are the laws that allow the court to try young people as the adult. They are three main types of juvenile transfer laws. They include Automatic Legislative Exclusion, Prosecution-Discretionary and Judicial-Discretionary. In addition to juvenile transfer laws some states only single transfer law is applicable while other states combines two transfer laws.
Question 2
Judicial-discretionary
The law allows the court to determine whether the juvenile is should be considered as young adult or should be tried as an adult. Juvenile judge have to provide a formal support for the juvenile to be moved into adult court out of juvenile the court. The judge considers some factors during these transfers of the juvenile to adult courts. The factors include seriousness of the crime, the juvenile’s amenability to treatment and he juvenile’s level of maturity.
Prosecutorial-discretionary
.the decision making is carried out by the prosecutors who decide to try the juvenile like an adult or not, in this transfer law. The judge therefore does not sign a prescribed proclamation for the transfer to be carried out.
Automatic legislation exclusion
In this transfer, all decisions are taken out by courts and the prosecutors when it comes to transferring of the juvenile to adult courts. In this method state legislature determines the criminal prosecutions.
Question 3
In the findings, juvenile transfer laws are positively correlated with juvenile crime. Increase in combination of severity of all juvenile causes increase in juvenile burglary as instrumental variable regressions indicate.
Question 4
The CCJ options include paying amount in full, in this there won’t have court hearing and no CCJ recorded against you. Dispute the claim is another option where one returns anything that one owe to the defence form to the court thus setting out side of the argument.
Question 5
CCJ system is incompatible with the principles of protecting human rights. The convection on the human rights of the child is said to be the first legal binding of international instrument. Thus the convection set standard in education, health care and civil, legal and social services.
