Juvenile Crime Research Paper
What legal rights do juveniles have with the police?
The United State Supreme Court’s issued a series of opinions in 1960 that changed the way police have to deal with juveniles forever, at the time there were few or no laws that protected juvenile mainly due to the rehabilitative ideal in juvenile justice at the time. In these opinions most of the justices stressed (according to our book) “that they were trying to avoid having youth get “the worst of both worlds”—neither the procedural protections given to adults in the criminal courts, nor the care and emphasis on rehabilitation that juvenile courts were meant to provide.”
So what legal rights do juveniles have with the police in today’s society? When it comes to search and seizure juvenile
are afforded the same rights as adult in that they are protected from unauthorized search and seizure. Interrogation practices, of juvenile has also changed now a parents or attorneys must be notified and present during questioning, and the questioning must be conducted at a neutral location and not at the police station. Fingerprinting is another area where juvenile differ from adults. When a juvenile becomes an adult their records should be destroyed. Pretrial identification practices, another controversial right of juvenile that is happening more now than it was in the past is the photographing and placing of juveniles in lineups.
The United State Supreme Court’s issued a series of opinions in 1960 that changed the way police have to deal with juveniles forever, at the time there were few or no laws that protected juvenile mainly due to the rehabilitative ideal in juvenile justice at the time. In these opinions most of the justices stressed (according to our book) “that they were trying to avoid having youth get “the worst of both worlds”—neither the procedural protections given to adults in the criminal courts, nor the care and emphasis on rehabilitation that juvenile courts were meant to provide.”
So what legal rights do juveniles have with the police in today’s society? When it comes to search and seizure juvenile
are afforded the same rights as adult in that they are protected from unauthorized search and seizure. Interrogation practices, of juvenile has also changed now a parents or attorneys must be notified and present during questioning, and the questioning must be conducted at a neutral location and not at the police station. Fingerprinting is another area where juvenile differ from adults. When a juvenile becomes an adult their records should be destroyed. Pretrial identification practices, another controversial right of juvenile that is happening more now than it was in the past is the photographing and placing of juveniles in lineups.