Juvenile Justice Argumentative Essay
In the society, we live in today; juvenile justice is nationwide concern of law enforcement. However to what the extent the laws and penalties used towards the youth today has been a major focus of many criminologists and organizations around the nation. Many people feel that all the laws should be prosecuted to the fullest extent, however there are just as many who feel the minor offenses should be dismissed so that the juvenile’s future and record will not be tarnished for a nonviolent law.
The juvenile justice system needs to be strict with even minor, nonviolent offense because the record of juvenile may be studied to predict future violators. As most children are considered to be incompetent to be tried as adults as they do not have the capacity to make decisions in the practical sense. This is due to what is known as developmental immaturity. Young adults can however be held liable for their actions. In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for 16 and 17 year old …show more content…
The task for a successful juvenile justice system is to identify this group chronic offenders and incapacitate them through extended periods of incarceration (Barry pg. 1.) Many criminologists have recognized that the following characteristics of a repeat offenders juvenile record are similar, child abuse and family disintegration, economic and social deprivation, low neighborhood attachment, parental attitudes condoning law violating behavior academic failure truancy school dropout, lack of bonding with society, fighting with peers and antisocial behaviors early in life (Wilber 1) . On the contrary if the juvenile is let off on his first offense, the future of the juvenile not has been tarnished by committing a mistake. The future of the juvenile is more important than the prediction of who will be future repeat
The juvenile justice system needs to be strict with even minor, nonviolent offense because the record of juvenile may be studied to predict future violators. As most children are considered to be incompetent to be tried as adults as they do not have the capacity to make decisions in the practical sense. This is due to what is known as developmental immaturity. Young adults can however be held liable for their actions. In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for 16 and 17 year old …show more content…
The task for a successful juvenile justice system is to identify this group chronic offenders and incapacitate them through extended periods of incarceration (Barry pg. 1.) Many criminologists have recognized that the following characteristics of a repeat offenders juvenile record are similar, child abuse and family disintegration, economic and social deprivation, low neighborhood attachment, parental attitudes condoning law violating behavior academic failure truancy school dropout, lack of bonding with society, fighting with peers and antisocial behaviors early in life (Wilber 1) . On the contrary if the juvenile is let off on his first offense, the future of the juvenile not has been tarnished by committing a mistake. The future of the juvenile is more important than the prediction of who will be future repeat