Juvenile Court Case Study
1. What is the history and development of the juvenile court and justice process?
The history of the juvenile court and system dates back to the year 1824 in the United States, which was “The House of Refuge” in New York. “The House of Refuge was the first juvenile house of the United States. In 1899, Cook County in the state of Illinois established the first juvenile court. Youth in the juvenile court system dating back before the year of 1967 did not have constitutional legal rights. It was not until the year 1967, that it changed.
In the landmark case of, ‘in re Gault, 387 U.S. (1967), when the United States. Supreme Court required that all youth offenders involved in juvenile court proceedings and facing possible confinement have the following constitutional rights as adults. Following the …show more content…
What developments, legislative changes, and legal factors and their effects have had on juvenile waiver and transfer to adult criminal court? The developments, legislative changes and legal factors on the juvenile system changed since the 1970 when the juvenile system was designed for the best interest of the juveniles, bit in the 1980’s and 1990’s the juvenile system started focusing on the criminal acts of juveniles offenders and presumed need for more coercive intervention. There are now three ways in which a juvenile can be prosecuted in the adult criminal system and that is judicial waiver, statutory exclusion, and concurrent jurisdiction.
A judicial waiver occurs when a juvenile court judge transfers a case from juvenile to adult court in order to deny the juvenile the protections that juvenile jurisdictions provide. Statutory exclusion, are provisions in the law to exclude some offenses, such as first-degree murder, from juvenile court jurisdiction. Concurrent jurisdiction is a legal provision, which allows the prosecutor to file a juvenile case in both juvenile and adult court because the offense and the age of the accused meet certain
The history of the juvenile court and system dates back to the year 1824 in the United States, which was “The House of Refuge” in New York. “The House of Refuge was the first juvenile house of the United States. In 1899, Cook County in the state of Illinois established the first juvenile court. Youth in the juvenile court system dating back before the year of 1967 did not have constitutional legal rights. It was not until the year 1967, that it changed.
In the landmark case of, ‘in re Gault, 387 U.S. (1967), when the United States. Supreme Court required that all youth offenders involved in juvenile court proceedings and facing possible confinement have the following constitutional rights as adults. Following the …show more content…
What developments, legislative changes, and legal factors and their effects have had on juvenile waiver and transfer to adult criminal court? The developments, legislative changes and legal factors on the juvenile system changed since the 1970 when the juvenile system was designed for the best interest of the juveniles, bit in the 1980’s and 1990’s the juvenile system started focusing on the criminal acts of juveniles offenders and presumed need for more coercive intervention. There are now three ways in which a juvenile can be prosecuted in the adult criminal system and that is judicial waiver, statutory exclusion, and concurrent jurisdiction.
A judicial waiver occurs when a juvenile court judge transfers a case from juvenile to adult court in order to deny the juvenile the protections that juvenile jurisdictions provide. Statutory exclusion, are provisions in the law to exclude some offenses, such as first-degree murder, from juvenile court jurisdiction. Concurrent jurisdiction is a legal provision, which allows the prosecutor to file a juvenile case in both juvenile and adult court because the offense and the age of the accused meet certain