The Juvenile Court System
Any court system of any country is designed to punish the offender and keep all the citizens secured from attacks and harassment from their neighbors as they go about their daily chores. Hover, due to the age difference of the offenders, there is the need to design and develop a juvenile justice system which is formed with a sole purpose of taking care of the needs and desires of the youths who can be deprived basic needs of development and can be harassed if taken to the adult prisons. The juvenile court system is the primary system used to address and handle youth cases especially those caught and convicted of crimes. This system helps to intervene in delinquent behavior through police, court, and correctional involvement and is largely punitive.
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Termination of parental rights – the forensic psychologist has a duty to suggest, support and oppose the end of the legal parent-child relationship.
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Termination of parental rights
Often, the thought of the parents losing their children to the system pushes them to work hard and to work on his or her situation for the child in question. However, on other occasions and to other parents, the thought of termination of the parent’s rights brings relief to them. The termination of the parental rights can be regarded as one of the strongest legal mechanisms available to protect children in need. Some of the major grounds through which a parent can lose his or her rights over their children include:
Severe or chronic physical abuse of the child
Any sexual abuse of the child that can result in the criminal behavior of the child
Child neglect by failing to provide shelter, food or other needed care as is required by parental obligations.
Long-term alcohol or drug induced incapacity of the parent as well as long-term mental illness of the …show more content…
Possible recommendation from the forensic psychologist includes visitations, treatment, and placement. The forensic psychologist through this evaluation helps to determine how well is the parent able to respond flexibly, what are these parents reflective capacities, both in begin attuned to their experiences and internal world And the experience and internal world of their child/others. Finally, the psychologist has to determine the risks or benefits of terminating the parent-child
Termination of parental rights – the forensic psychologist has a duty to suggest, support and oppose the end of the legal parent-child relationship.
Question 2
Termination of parental rights
Often, the thought of the parents losing their children to the system pushes them to work hard and to work on his or her situation for the child in question. However, on other occasions and to other parents, the thought of termination of the parent’s rights brings relief to them. The termination of the parental rights can be regarded as one of the strongest legal mechanisms available to protect children in need. Some of the major grounds through which a parent can lose his or her rights over their children include:
Severe or chronic physical abuse of the child
Any sexual abuse of the child that can result in the criminal behavior of the child
Child neglect by failing to provide shelter, food or other needed care as is required by parental obligations.
Long-term alcohol or drug induced incapacity of the parent as well as long-term mental illness of the …show more content…
Possible recommendation from the forensic psychologist includes visitations, treatment, and placement. The forensic psychologist through this evaluation helps to determine how well is the parent able to respond flexibly, what are these parents reflective capacities, both in begin attuned to their experiences and internal world And the experience and internal world of their child/others. Finally, the psychologist has to determine the risks or benefits of terminating the parent-child