Essays on Juvenile Court

Youths are not generally tried in adult court for the crimes that they commit. This is because most of the crimes committed by youths are not serious enough to justify incarcerating them alongside adult offenders. Most youths are tried in juvenile court and are sentenced to serve time in juvenile detention facilities if convicted. However, this does not apply to youths who are convicted of more serious crimes, such as murder. The age at which a person can be tried in adult versus juvenile court differs between states. In forty-one states the maximum age of a juvenile before being ...

Incarceration appears to be one of the most popular forms of punishment for committing crime or other offences. The largest number of prison population is in the United States. According to a study, performed in 2013 by Lauren E. Glaze and Danielle Kaeble, statisticians by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), about two million adults were incarcerated and others less than five million were under parole or probation. Totally 6 899 000 adult individuals were under the supervision of Criminal Justice System (prisons, jails, parole, probation) in 2013. (Glaze, L., Kaeble, D., 2013) With the establishment of prisons, ...

Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Introduction

The United States Constitution was framed without a Bill of Rights, and subsequent amendments came to be parts of the Bill of Rights, although this was framed amid the lack of confidence of an oppressive regime. The fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments provided rules to safeguard individual liberty. The Sixth Amendment protects citizens against unfair denials of life and liberty by ordering the federal government to give protections to all suspected criminal offenders (Chhablani, 2008).

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against unpredictable violations of privacy by government authorities. This protects ...

In the history of American law and justice, the first juvenile court was established in1899. The Juvenile Justice and Correctional Process is made up of a few phases that are utilized to help the child whose age ranges between 7 to 18 years for the interest of the both the society and the youths. In addition, there are guidelines on judgment techniques, circumstances, and contribution that contrast inside states. Thus, the objective of this essay is to investigate the juvenile procedure and correction in California while considering the case study of Colleen a 15 year old who was arrested ...

Introduction

Psychological evaluation of juvenile offenders is an important part of the juvenile court system. This is because the main purpose of the juvenile justice system is the rehabilitation of the juvenile offenders who exhibit different psychological problems and others are raised by dysfunctional families. This means that a juvenile offender may require psychological treatment, assistance with their education, or treatment for a substance abuse problem. Provision of the right rehabilitation service will help in reducing the chances of recidivism. The psychological evaluation of the juvenile offenders may reveal some valuable information to the juvenile court that might assist in ...

The

ABSTRACT The underage offenders can not be treated as adult criminals. Children have more chances to change. A special court system for juveniles has created a service-delivery system that provides minors with education, guidance, and supervision. The courts for juveniles also differ from the ones for adults. Commonly, the juvenile courts are informal in order not to stress the child, but minors has still have less rights in the court than adults. Also children can be punished for the cases that are absolutely legal for adults, like possession of alcohol and tobacco and running away from home. Minors are ...

ABSTRACT

The juvenile crime rate has made a significant increase in America as children as young as eight years old are committing violent crimes. The juvenile justice system was first created to keep children out of adult prisons and to rehabilitate the children so that they will become productive non-criminal adults. This system has not been effective. Children are impacted by many factors when faced with decisions in today’s society. They are not as developed and lack the reasoning capability like adults. Thus, new approaches to juvenile justice must be instilled throughout the country in order to prevent more ...

Study

Abstract Juvenile transfer laws is one of the most controversial issue on the today’s criminal justice agenda of the United States of America. Thus, the policymakers vehemently argue that the possibility of being tried ‘as an adult’ is an effective general, specific and potential deterrent of juvenile crime. Enacted in the majority of the states, the juvenile transfer laws are thought to be an effective restraint against juvenile recidivism, an effective tool for rehabilitation of the young offenders and a solution, which protects the community against the most dangerous juvenile offenders. Yet, the several studies demonstrated that these ...

Overview

The case In re Patrick F., Super. Ct. No. SJ14023322, concerns the conditions placed on a juvenile delinquent’s dispositional order (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). On June 11, 2014, then-17 year old Patrick F. burglarized his next door neighbor’s home and stole a valuable gold ring and coins (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). Patrick F. was soon apprehended by the police as a potential suspect and admitted to entering the home and stealing the items while the relative stood watch (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). The district attorney submitted a juvenile ...

Parenting involves facilitating an infant’s development regarding physical, emotional, social, financial and intellectual aspects. A parent can be biologically related to an infant or not (Conger, 2007). Establishing a solid parental support system at home is the key to raising an upright well-rounded child. The goal for all good parents is to enable the child to feel competent and confident and to assist the child in developing a good passion and purpose. When parents fail to perform their duties as parents, they become guilty of child abuse. Ill-treatment of children can be explained by an action or failure ...

A defendant is innocent until proven guilty. The structure of the legal system and process in the United States is to place the burden of proof on the government. The government carries this burden of proof as to every element of the crime the defendant is charged with. In order for a criminal defendant to be found guilty, the prosecution must establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (In re Winship, 1970, p. 361). The reason for this high burden of proof is to guard against government abuse. Were the government not bound by any constraints, the respective positions of ...

Accountability and rehabilitation. These are the core objectives of the juvenile probation system today. In early America, children who committed crimes were either simply placed back into the community where they would recommit or they were placed in jails with adults. Since children are mentally, emotionally and developmentally different than adults, there was a significant need for change for these children. Today, juvenile probation is the most common disposition for children adjudicated in the juvenile justice system as delinquent. The “workhorse of the juvenile justice system” is a term that has been given to the juvenile probation system in ...

The Supreme Court case Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541 (1966) raised a number of important issues regarding the treatment of juveniles in the criminal justice system. The facts are as follows. The defendant, Morris A. Kent, Jr. was arrested for breaking into a woman’s apartment, stealing her wallet, and raping her (Kent v. United States, 1966, p. 543). He was 16 years old at the time he committed these offenses and, because of his age, was subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the juvenile court (Kent v. United States, 1966, p. 543). Kent was subsequently taken ...

Juvenile offenders, especially who committed violent crimes clearly that there is something that needs to be done in order to prevent further occurrence and involvement of the minors with these types of offenses. The topic that was selected for this proposal is appropriateness of trial over minors who committed violent crimes. This has been one of the critical issues especially in the Criminal Justice System as should these minors or juveniles must be treated and tried equally with adult law offenders. This topic was chosen to discuss the potential positive effects of providing adult punishment to juveniles. On the ...

The name of the school/university

As it was already discussed in Chapter 6, the Juvenile court in the United States is well designed structure that is able to meet the necessities of dealing with the juvenile offenders. It relies mainly on the prevention from committing crimes rather than sentencing and punishing the offenders. The decisions of the court are based on the principle that everything must be done in the child’s interest. There is a substantial group of juvenile offenders who are waived to the adult courts and endure a real trial. A long discussion took place through the years about the waiving ...

Purpose and operation

The name of school/university The juvenile offenders, at the end of the 18th and the beginning of 19th centuries, were sentenced, punished and served their punishments in jails or other penal units in very miserable conditions, along with adult criminals or mentally ill individuals. The situation changed under the actions of the new established movement for Prevention of Pauperism with leaders Thomas Eddy and John Griskom, who opposed to the current practice of placing juveniles in penitentiaries with adults and insisted on establishment of new units that would answer the requirements for domicile of poor and rambling through the ...

The juvenile justice system was created to treat and rehabilitate juvenile offenders. As a result, policies and court decisions tend to reflect this goal. In this essay, three of the most important court cases regarding the juvenile justice system will be discussed. The first examines when a juvenile can be tried as an adult, and what steps must first be taken in the juvenile court. The second court case looks at what mitigating factors must be considered when sentencing a 16 or 17-year-old offender to capital punishment. The third case will look into whether 16 or 17-year-old offenders receiving ...

Question 1

Should private prisons be used as a way to reduce prison overcrowding? Why, or why not? What do you feel should be done to help mitigate prevention of prison overcrowding? Provide detailed examples, and explain why these would benefit the corrections system.

Response 1

Yes, private prisons should be used to reduce prison overcrowding. In 2006, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an Emergency Proclamation that authorized the state of California to transfer prisoners to private-out-of-state prisons . The transfer of some inmates to private prisons mitigates prevention of prison overcrowding and it benefits the correction system; however, to the families and friends ...

The juvenile justice system is a foundation in the society which is granted responsibilities and power; it mirrors the adult system of criminal justice in that it also has three basic components like the adult system of justice. Its components are courts, police and corrections. The juvenile justice system brings the juvenile delinquent in contact with the court system if found guilty and the local police. A police officer is the first contact that a juvenile offender has with the juvenile system. He/she is considered the gate keeper of the juvenile system. Police officers are the most visible officials in the ...

Juvenile waivers involve a situation when a juvenile is transferred to an adult court and hence tried as an adult. This means that the juvenile is tried absent of all the protections offered to juveniles in the juvenile court. This may have very impactful effects on the life of the juvenile. A good example is that juvenile records are not a permanent stain on the juvenile’s life. These records are sealed the moment the juvenile turns 18. However, proceedings and outcomes in an adult court are a more permanent record. Irrespective of the age of the juvenile during the time, their case ...

There has been a significant growth in the number of violent juvenile crimes over the past decade, which has stirred a heated debate on effectiveness and viability of the juvenile system. According to statistics in the US Department of Justice at the beginning of the 21st century one among four residents in the US were below 18 years of age. Therefore, the number of minors has been large and providing services to this population has been a challenge. The government has been on a mission to ensure efficiency and viability of the system through allocation of resources and development of proper infrastructure (Demarest, ...

Juvenile Justice Transfer Process

Juvenile justice is a justice system that was made to protect delinquent offenders it is a system that act as a shield to offenders below the majority age from the criminal system. The establishment of juvenile justice system dates back 1868, it was meant to protect children from the adult way of justice (Taxman, 2014). The main aim of forming the juvenile justice was to encourage the rehabilitation on the basis of the child needs (Robinson, 2014). The system separates young criminals below the age of 17 years from adult criminals. Formation of the system was under the belief that if young ...

The United States Juvenile justice system has evolved into its current form due to constant developments over a period of time. Children were kept with other criminals in United States prisons in earlier times, and a separate criminal justice system for juveniles, is relatively new in the United States. The idea of juvenile justice has developed in the 19th century as a separate entity from the adult criminal justice system in the United States. This paper intends to discuss US juvenile justice system and also analyses the significant developments that affected the area of juvenile justice in significant ways (Edwards, 2008, p. ...

Introduction

Juvenile offenders are growing in numbers and they take a significant account of arrests involving the crimes of burglary, murder and rape. Juvenile delinquency is no doubt a social problem that is becoming pervasive if not addressed appropriately. The juvenile law took transitional stages in order to adopt to the changing trends in juvenile crimes and offenses. Through the efforts of social reformers, the juvenile justice system in the country took one form to another from the creation of reformation schools for the juvenile delinquents, the separation of juvenile offenders from the adult offenders, the creation of the special juvenile courts, ...

Should Children Who Commit Crime be tried as Adults?

Before the introduction of Juvenile Court System in 1899, individuals under 17 years who committed a crime were subjected to a similar system as adults. However, psychologists discovered that contrary to the perception that juveniles were hardened criminals, they are youths who have lost their way. Thus, the main objective for the introduction of the Juvenile Court System was not to imprison and punish the juveniles, but to rehabilitate them. This system works under the same viewpoint as the other justice system, which concentrates on encouraging good behavior instead of punishing bad. Victims are given a number of opportunities such as receiving ...

Psychology

In the article of Eckholm, he focused on the importance of juvenile courts by explaining how the juveniles face lifelong sentences despite the Supreme Court decisions that are favourable to the minors. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court in its recent decisions in 2010 and 2012 prevented to use the mandatory life sentences on youth offenders who had been convicted with murder by explaining that they are less culpable compared to adults. This is in accordance to the concept of restorative justice, where the juvenile delinquents should be given the chance to redeem themselves (Eckholm, “Juveniles Facing Lifelong Terms ...

Law

There have been proposals to divide the juvenile courts in two divisions which may result to both advantages and disadvantages to the taxpayer and the youth offender. Under this proposed system, the offender shall either be tried under the juvenile delinquency court and there are those who will be tried under the status offender court. As a general rule, majority of the youth offenders are charged for delinquency cases have been classified as status offenders. One of the benefits or advantages of dividing the juvenile system in two divisions will redound to the benefit of the status offenders since ...

Throughout the American history, young offenders as young as seven years old have been incarcerated and held in the same facilities with grownups. The state of New York was the first to notice this injustice and in the 1824, the House of Refuge was opened. It was the first house of reform in the United States of America. States followed suit and established their own reform houses. In Maryland, children were held in a separate facility for the first time in history. In 1899, the Cook County in the state of Illinois opened the first juvenile court. The proceedings in ...

Introduction

The number of youths engaging in criminal activities in United Kingdom and across the world is alarming. For long, such youths were sentenced in juvenile courts and subsequently detained in respective juvenile prisons. However, as time passed, the government was concerned that detaining and sentencing the youths through the courts was an ineffective method of guiding the youth to acceptable behavior. Many programs, designed to guide the youth to up to standard behavior were introduced. Most of these methods do not use the courts; instead, they use community programs, strict parenting, warnings, surveillance, and punishment. According to Muncie and ...

Most states have enacted laws that allow prosecution of juvenile offenders as adults in response to the increasing rates of crimes committed by adolescents. Those in favor of trying juvenile offenders as adults believe that certain violent crimes committed by juveniles merit harsher punishment than allowed by juvenile law, and that harsher punishment may serve as a deterrent for the commission of future crimes. However, a growing body of evidence is beginning to show that this belief is wrong and unjust. Many nonthreatening juvenile offenders are sent through adult criminal courts regardless of the impact of their crime on the ...

Mental Illness and Juvenile Delinquency

In recent years, reports of crimes committed around the globe are causing alarms for many not just because of the violence it entails but as to the identity of perpetrators. Criminals nowadays are becoming far younger than they were years ago and for the government, this is alarming as these children should be with their families and learning. Several reasons have already been identified as to why juvenile delinquency persists: from family conditions to social influence. However, some also argue that mental illness is at fault with some cases of juvenile delinquency. Mental illnesses disable children and teenagers from ...

The US Constitution is the supreme law that governs the United States of America. The law created a national government and primary laws, and also established specific basic human rights for the citizens. The constitution contains seven Articles and 27 Amendments. The constitution has been in existence for more than 200 years and in the process, it has undergone important ramifications to make it better (The United States Court, 2014). The paper will discuss the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution, and how they apply in adult and juvenile court proceedings. The Fourth Amendment prohibits the ...

Rehabilitation versus Incarceration

JUVENILE OFFENDERS 2 Introduction Crime is a prevalent factor in American society, and is committed among all individuals regardless of age, race, gender, or socioeconomic status. The majority of American juveniles, individuals under the age of eighteen, have admitted to committing some type of crime throughout their young life. While the majority of crimes by juveniles are considered petty, non-violent, and overall minor offenses, youths also commit dangerous and heinous acts of crime identical to what we see in the adult penal system. In the last 30 years, Sociologists, Criminologists, and Penologists have witnessed both major and minor ...

Ethical Behavior in Criminal Justice

Situation 2 You are a legislator who believes absolutely and strongly that abortion is a sin. You have polled your constituents and are surprised to find that the majority does not believe that the government should legislate the private decision of a woman to have an abortion. Should you vote your conscience or the will of the majority of your constituents? A. As a legislator who believes that abortion is a mortal sin, the personal take on the moral arguments of abortion is an important part of my personal values. However, one moral standpoint may not be the same to the other, ...

MEMORANDUM TO THE COURT

Re: Status Offense Considerations Definition and nature of Status Offenses The U.S legal system recognizes status offenses to be activities, which are deemed offenses when committed by young people under the age of eighteen years, often referred as the juveniles because of their age at the time of the activity. The offenses do not affect the adults if they do them. As it is widely known most, legal concepts emanate from legal theories. The legal theories explain why the need for the existence of the laws and provides logical explanations why certain laws apply. Like other legal ...

Introduction

In every society throughout history, there has been a certain amount of crime that took place. To keep crime and criminals from harming others in society, systems of rules and laws were set up to deter crime and punish the offenders. Crime prevention is an important part of the criminal justice system. Throughout this paper, I will define crime prevention and discuss its relationship to the criminal justice system. Furthermore, I will discuss a few institutions that deliver crime prevention programs.

The Function of the Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system serves several functions in society. The criminal justice system offers a means to punish offenders for crimes ...

- The relationship between peers and delinquency. Peers groups have very close relationship with criminal behaviors. As it can be seen in most cases, criminal acts are committed in minor groups rather than solo leading to co-offending. Youths who have insufficient peer relations in most scenarios are the ones who are likely to become criminal. The young who maintain criminal friends are the ones who are likely to engage in disruptive behaviors and use of drug abuse. Youths who report inadequate or strained peer relations are the ones who are most likely to become delinquent. Some kids are ...

Introduction

America has the potential of reducing further the detrimental Juvenile crimes that are rampant in the US today if the Juvenile Justice will consider the Missouri model. United States have been one of the countries that have high cases of juvenile court cases. Statistics show that in every four Americans arraigned in court one of them has the capability of being a juvenile delinquent. California records high number of such incidences according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The rising number of crimes includes the Juvenile of Ex-offenders. This is somehow unnecessary since the US Juvenile System provides for ...

The historical evolution of the juvenile justice system started to emerge in the 1800’s when children were viewed differently from adults. Prior to this, the English common law treats youthful offenders as similar to any adult who committed a crime and imposing similar penalties even corporeal harsh punishment and oftentimes capital punishment. It was in the 1900’s that the state begins to show interest in the child’s welfare and even state legislations were introduced to provide more humanitarian care for juvenile offenders. Influenced by social changes and urbanization, the state begins to recognize adolescence and children as ...

The court structure in the United States is unique in the sense that it consists of two different court systems namely the federal and the state court systems. Each of the court systems is charged with the adjudication of different disputes though they work in cooperation. Cases usually commence at the lower courts and work their way up the higher courts. Most of the legal issues are arbitrated at the State trial courts which exercise both criminal and civil jurisdiction. Most states in the United States have two levels of trial courts: those with a limited jurisdiction and those ...

Since the inception of the juvenile justice system, there have been many segments of the society that have been incorporated into the management and running of the system to ensure its success. Each of these parties play a vital role, each with its own unique set of characteristics and responsibilities that make it most effective in accomplishing the given role. Some of these parties include the police, the courts and the department of justice. In this paper, I will seek to discuss and critically analyse the roles of these three parties within the juvenile justice system.

The Police

The police are considered ...

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Introduction 4 Causes 5 Psychological and Sociological Aspects 6 Preventive Methods 10 Intervention Methods 11 Conclusion 14

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Abstract Before young children are glimpsed as, a continuation of their parents and without their own rights (Haapasalo, 2001). There was couple of regulations to defend young children and double-check their safety. Children who have pledged misdeeds are administered with in mature individual enclosures and penalized in the identical way. Formation of the juvenile court for offenders and re-offenders and there enact regulations to defend young children from misuse, long hours, progeny neglect and the establishment of ...

Probation, in the criminal justice context, is the period which a convicted person (probationer) is subjected to supervision, critical examination and intense evaluation. A judicial court is the only institution with the authority to order probation on a convict. Probation is ordered in lieu of incarceration. However, it does not mean that the convicted person is set free. An order of probation has conditions often imposed by a statute. It is given for rehabilitative purposes. However, the trial judge has the discretion to impose more conditions on a probation sentencing to meet the interests of the public and the offender. The conditions imposed ...

Article Review

Ainsworth, J.E. (1996) The Court’s Effectiveness in Protecting the Rights of Juveniles in Delinquency Cases. The Future of Children, Winter 1996; 6(3): 64-74.

Introduction

In this article, the author explores the possible disadvantages to juveniles of waivers into the adult criminal court system, no constitutional right to a jury trial in juvenile court and diversion programs. In introducing the article, Ainsworth (1996) observes that the juvenile court system was based on the premise of two basic perceptions of young people who were in violation of the law: first, young people were both morally and cognitively underdeveloped and thus ...

1. Please describe in DETAIL the Community- Based Nonresidential and Economic Intermediate Sanctions Community corrections form a critical part of the criminal justice system. Community corrections are in the form of sanctions that are intended to ensure that offenders serve all or a part of their entire sentence in the community. There are a number of community-based sanctions which include residential programs, economic sanctions and nonresidential sanctions. Economic sanctions hold offenders accountable for their actions and they include fines, fees, forfeiture and restitution. Intermediate sanctions are sentencing options that fall between probation and incarceration. Nonresidential sanctions increase supervision levels while allowing ...

Jane Addams and Hull House:A Personal Reflection

Visiting the Hull House museum provided a revealing view of the great effort it took at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century for social change to happen, not only in Chicago, but also nationally. It was very interesting to learn that when, in 1889, Hull House opened, Jane Addams and her colleague Ellen Gates Starr viewed it simply as a place “to offer art and literary education to their less fortunate neighbors” and that it developed over the years into so much more (“About Hull” n.d.). Although I am not an expert in American history, I ...

Introduction

Juvenile court system is a parallel criminal system provided for juvenile delinquents. Criminal justice system realized that juvenile offenders have special needs as compared to adult criminals in that they are young, and have great future to pursue; therefore, the main objective of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate them. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) asserts that, the objective of the juvenile justice system is to “encourage a process of behavioral change by helping the child or young person to feel accountable for his or her actions and understand their impact on others, and foster integration ...

The criminal justice system in the US operates as a network of three distinctive agencies, which include law enforcement, the court system and rehabilitation agency. The law enforcement is charged with the duty of capturing offenders and taking them to court, where the court process determines the course of action to be taken against the offenders. When the action involves sending these culprits to rehabilitation centers they are given different types of punishment depending on their offenses. However, the court has many duties beside judgment of offenders, such as the civil issues like traffic violations. Therefore, with all the duties ...

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Juvenile delinquency is said to be an antisocial behavior exhibited by minors. (Quay, 1987) In the USA, most states would consider a juvenile to be between the ages of ten and eighteen, while a few others consider up to sixteen years of age as the limit. When crimes are committed by persons under these age range, they are commonly tried as a juvenile and not as an adult, which poses much difference from normal court proceedings. Juvenile tried cases are mediated by judges instead of the usual trial by a jury of the peers. Moreover, unlike an adult case, juveniles ...

The juvenile system is a network of agencies dealing with children below adulthood, who have in one way or another violated the laid laws. The main goal of the juvenile justice system in the state of Georgia is to reclaim the lives of juvenile offenders through education and the prevention of juvenile crimes and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. This is a way to help teenagers and children by protecting them from harsh punishment for their offense. This is because criminal courts were deemed unnecessary and less serious. Another goal was to destruct youthful offenders from destructive punishment of criminal courts. This ...

Juvenile delinquency essentially refers to the crimes committed by persons who have not attained the age of the majority. The age of the majority in most legal jurisdictions is eighteen years. In legal parlance, criminal liability refers to the liability that accrues as a consequence of one’s action or omission. The liability as such occasions the incurrence of the blame for a particular result. In criminology, a person of sound mind and having attained the age of the majority will bear the criminal liability for any crime committed through the direct commission or omission of his actions. The law, however, applies ...

When a juvenile offender is taken to the justice system, different rule are used in charging the offender. The juvenile is typically put under the justice system, if they are less than 18 years of age. However, the rules of judgment are subject to variation depending on the severity of the case. The paper herein shall succinctly address the Juvenile crime issues which are inclusive of the comparative analysis of the juvenile court and the adult court, and define the term delinquency and lastly discuss on the variables that correlate with the Juvenile crime rates (Fagan, 1996).

The Juvenile court and Adult court

There are numerous ...

In order to understand where the juvenile justice system is today, we need to look back and understand the history of the juvenile justice system. When the first settlers arrived in America, they brought along the juvenile justice system that was in effect in England. This system evolved and improved through the 1800s. During the 1900s, landmark cases changed the course of juvenile justice in the United States. Unfortunately, the present juvenile system is more concerned with punishment than rehabilitation. Reformers are working to change the current juvenile justice system as it is too harsh. First, let us look ...

The juvenile justice organization is rooted in the normal criminal justice organization. The major objective of a juvenile court might be different from the criminal court; however, the procedures have resemblance in application. The organizations are anchored in shielding society and seizing criminals responsible for their deeds. Once a juvenile, in this case Colleen M, goes into the juvenile justice structure, she goes through the intake procedure, detention, adjudication, disposition and aftercare (Scholte, 2002). The initial stage is intake. The intake procedure is also recognized as prosecution in the adult courts. In this stage, the court or prosecutor establishes whether ...

1. Legal jurisprudence recognizes the rules and principles which are necessary for the justice. The concept recognizes equal rights and protection for everybody, Right from a competent person to a common person who has even no knowledge of his rights or duties. The rule of natural justice makes provisions to provide the opportunities to a person who has committed a crime or any offence intentionally or unintentionally. The legal procedure tries to find out the reasons behind a criminal act and that why a person was compelled or what motivated him to commit the said act. Justice is a very broad phenomenon which ensures the scope ...

The juvenile justice organization is rooted in the normal criminal justice organization. The major objective of a juvenile court might be different from the criminal court; however, the procedures have resemblance in application. The organizations are anchored in shielding society and seizing criminals responsible for their deeds. Once a juvenile goes into the juvenile justice structure, he or she goes through the intake procedure, detention, adjudication, disposition and aftercare (Scholte, 2002). The initial stage is intake. The intake procedure is also recognized as prosecution in the adult courts. In this stage, the court or prosecutor establishes whether to prosecute the ...

Introduction

The court system in the United States of America is charged with responsibility of application and interpretation of the law. The United States operates a dual court system which has two lines of courts. They are the federal courts and the state courts. The federal courts take care of broader cases while the state courts handles only what goes on within the boundaries of the states. The federal courts and the state courts operate independently. The dual court system of the United States came out as a result of the delegates Constitutional Convention in 1787. During the convention, a compromise was reached ...

Introduction

The Juvenile Justice System was first established in 1899, was intended to rehabilitate all criminal offenders (CJCJ, 2011). The intention of this system is to rehabilitate the youth because at this time socialists were of the opinion that juvenile delinquents required strict disciplinary measures and proper structures to rehabilitate them. The juvenile system is actually a net of agencies which work with juveniles. These include: the police; probation; court; and the Department of Juvenile Corrections.

Once a juvenile suspect has been apprehended, the suspect may or may not be detained. In case the suspect is detained, then a petition is filed in ...