The United States government is based on a checks and balances type system. The three main parts of this system are the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. This judicial system’s job is to uphold the law of the land. Law can be defined as a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct (Wikipedia.org, 2005). This is a very wide and all encompassing definition of the law and the governing judicial system. Just like the United States government the judicial system is broken up into different checks, balances, and systems. Two of these main systems are the juvenile justices system and the adult justice system. The obvious difference between these two courts is that the juvenile system is designed to handle youth offenders and the adult system is designed to handle adult offenders. Both of these two systems despite their difference have the same end goal; to administer justice. In the pages to follow we will discuss the big picture of the juvenile justice system, go over a point by point comparison between the juvenile system and the adult system, touch on both the benefits and disadvantages to being tried as a minor in the juvenile court from the perspective of a minor, and review the societal implication of abolishing the juvenile court system.…
When a juvenile offender is committed of a crime there are different courses of action that the court may proceed with to help them become rehabilitated in the community. A juvenile offender can be offered a community based treatment or be institutionalized. A community based treatment can consist of probation, restitution, vocational programs, or counseling. Depending on the type of crime that is committed helps determine what is necessary for the juvenile.…
. The purpose of the juvenile court system was to protect the public by providing a system that responded to delinquent acts committed by juveniles who were maturing into adulthood (Juvenile Law Center, n.d.) In most states delinquency is defined as the charge of a criminal act by a child who is under the age of 18 (Juvenile Law Center, n.d.). The juvenile court system was established in the United States to remove youth offenders to welfare agencies or social services (University of Phoenix, 2013). The states recognized that children who committed…
The juvenile justice sector applies to individual under the age of 18 that are unable to be tried in the adult court system. Juvenile accused of committing crimes could face a transfer to the adult court system in conformance with some state laws and the specific crime that was committed. Juveniles later found guilty are not convicted of committing crimes, but rather delinquencies. Enforced by the state, in most cases, juvenile justice focuses on lower the recidivism rate by rehabilitating offenders. Rehabilitation, rather than imposing punishment on juveniles eliminates the hardening of the juveniles. Confined juveniles often learn the ways of more violent juveniles that they would not learn if they were sentenced to rehabilitation instead. With newly acquired skills from other jailhouse inmates, juveniles are more likely to go on to commit more serious crimes. As for adults, the technique is often punishment and then rehabilitation due to the fact that society views children as more likely to change rather than adult…
Juveniles process is as listed; detention hearing then fact finding hearing, after that they have the petition and respondent and next they have the adjudication and finally the involved/ delinquent. The juveniles usually and generally will not get a jury. Their court hearings are closed off to the public for the convenience of their privacy and mainly due to their age. Bails are generally not allowed nor set for juveniles/minors. For minors to get out of jail before their entire process is over they must prove to the judge that they are not a flight risk and that they are not a danger or threat to society and their community. When juveniles commit smaller mes a lot of the time they are punished worse than an adult would be for the exact same crime/offense. When a juvenile is punished by probation they are usually put on probation for a longer period than an adult would be. The stipulations to their probation would be a longer list as well. For example they would have to follow a curfew and they would have to respect their parents, and keep their grades up, attend one or more extra curricular activity, and they would have to possibly attend counseling. If they were to break these stipulations than they would have to report to their judge once again and possibly have their probation sentence lengthened or they would get what they call a probation violation and have to just serve their length of a sentence. For many of the…
Juveniles needs to learn from their crimes, so that is where the consequences comes into play for the juvenile’s criminal behavior. Juvenile can go through different consequences like community-based like probation and treatments programs that the judge has sent them to, for the juveniles to learn from their criminal behaviors. Probation, institution centers and treatment would be to help the juveniles to learn and change their paths of committing crimes.…
Imagine spending the rest of your life in prison, waiting to get out, but in reality knowing you will have to be there your whole life, for committing a crime at an age when you were unintelligent, and impulsive. Prison then becomes the only life you will know, and see. Sending Children and Teenagers to life in prison, and trying them as adults means that we as people and a society have given up on these young people. The Teens and Children serving adult sentences now, have no future to look forward to, and now cannot change and become active members of society. When a juvenile is arrested, the police will submit an application for the perpetrator for probation. Probation then looks at the criminals environment, psychological factors, and other crucial factors to determine where they go. If the crime is deemed harsh, and cruel,…
This program is a juvenile intervention agency. The goal is to treat, teach and invest in the lives of those who were incarcerated in previous years. These juveniles would have had to be between the ages of 13-17 years old. The mission is to advocate, empower, and transform lives one day at a time. So many times, those who are incarcerated are left to fend for themselves without any support system. But within this agency we’re here to give hope that a better journey is ahead. This is a non-profit organization that is applying to receive a grant that will used to help further our opportunity to serve those youth incarcerated.…
Juveniles in the adult criminal system are 34% more likely to be rearrested for another crime than youth retained in the juvenile system (Key Facts: Youth in the Justice System) so there for the juveniles aren’t learning their lesson. More and more teens are doing time alongside adults in prison recently after 100s years of adolescents committing serious crimes. Most juveniles tried as adults usually become reoffenders, they are not mature enough for adult jails, and they deserve another shot. Ultimately, the Juvenile Justice System was invented exactly for this purpose.…
The Impact of Juvenile Inmates’ Perceptions and Facility Characteristics on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities is written by Aaron Kupchik and R. Bradley Snyder. The significance of the problem the article focuses on is evidence of a third theoretic model in addition to the deprivation and importation theoretic models. The third model combines facility and individual variables that concentrate on the perception of the youth toward the facility’s rules and standards.…
If a minor is not tried as an adult, his or her, case is heard by a judge, no jury and in a juvenile court. Then a judge gets to decide what is in the best interest for the child and the child's family. A lot of children that commit crimes come from screwed-up backgrounds and could use some help getting on the right track. So a juvenile judge could sentence the child to a reform school or a juvenile facility with a rehabilitation program and release as the…
Placing a juvenile into a secure facility is not advantageous to the juvenile and has nor proven to be to be beneficial to society either. Statistics show that almost half of the juveniles in custody have not committed a violent crime or one that was against another person (Elrod & Ryder, 1999). Secure facilities resemble prisons where offenders are locked down and kept away from the public, but provide no real systematic approach for helping the juvenile down a path that will lead them to being a successful member of society. Secure facilities also have a growing problem with violence within their walls and escapes attempted. Although the majority of the juveniles who are incarcerated in a facility came in for a non-violent reason, the method…
Is sending kids to adult prisons and trying them as adults the best solution for our crime problem or would rehabilitating juveniles be a better option? Most people agree that kids who commit violent crimes need to be punished. However, do they really learn anything from being punished as an adult? In today’s society, punishment and rehabilitation has always been a big problem within our views in the Juvenile Justice System. Rehabilitation beats punishment! Adolescents who are tried and convicted of a crime should be placed in a rehabilitative system rather than a punitive system in order to shift behavior as rehabilitative systems lower recidivism rates.…
Before juvenile courts existed, children’s parent would determine their punishment. The odds of a child going through the court system were slim. Today when law enforcement arrests a juvenile the officer decides were the juvenile will go based the crime. Juvenile court has partial jurisdiction which means that they can only hear certain cases (Meyer & Grant, 2003). Normally the jurisdictions are outlined by age and what kind of crime has been committed by the juvenile (Meyer & Grant, 2003). Age limits vary by state to determine which juveniles are eligible to go through the court system. Depending on the crime committed a child can trailed as an adult. As an example a juvenile can be trailed as an adult if the juvenile commits murder. The juvenile court system basically handles cases that involve children with offences that aren’t appropriate for adult courts like truancy and runaways. It even handles cases involving child delinquency, adoption, and many more.…
5. What is the education level of the juvenile incarcerated in the state of Alabama?…