The United States take juvenile offenders very seriously because these juvenile offenders can become even worse offenders when they are adults. Not letting a juvenile get away with a warning or minor charge from what they should of got, helps teenagers understand that there are consciousness for their actions. If other teenagers observe and are aware that the Criminal Justice field is not going to take petty on them it will stir them away from trouble. It is better to teach someone right from wrong at an early stage in their child hood because once they are older they will not want to listen because they are adults. More juveniles are being processed because of their bad judgements.
The juvenile system considers that the young adolescents …show more content…
Counseling plays a big role for teens, because sometimes all a teen’s need is someone to listen, understand their way of thinking and their life. Other factors that people tend to miss out is while a juvenile is detained in a facility they are able to receive a general education and a diploma. All of these methods that the juvenile facilities offer is to make young adolescents understand how they are growing up and how next time the court system will not forgive them for their crimes. With the help youth adolescents are receiving it is definitely a chance to change their life for the …show more content…
Low household income family children become juveniles on a high note because many families are unemployed and lack income. “Two measures of economic stress were used: extremely low household income (as an indicator of poverty) and unemployment” (Weatherburn, D., & Lind, B). Juvenile believe they are assisting their families and themselves yet in the meantime they are not understanding the harm it will cost them. The acts of a juvenile can be malicious or they can just be searching for attention, many parents are worried about bring home income that sometimes they forget about their children. Being neglected can cause a teenager to act in many different behavers. Several of times when children behave badly because they want attention, this is another way of crying out for help. “The direct measures of social stress identified in the literature are single parent families, residential stability and family size” (Weatherburn, D., & Lind,