Future of the Juvenile Justice System Cody Cotton Dave Muser Noe Farjado Robert Thomas CJA/403 March 22‚ 2011 Jaime Roman Future of the Juvenile Justice System The juvenile justice system has a tremendous influence on today’s troubled youth and empirical evidence has shown the juvenile crime to have
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argument that states that juvenile delinquents should be treated as teenagers and not as an adult. Many will argue that everyone should be treated the same but evidence shows that courts have always treated crimes by a case to case study. Introduction In the law‚ a juvenile is defined as a person who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. In most states the normal age is 18. In Wyoming a juvenile is a person under the age of 19. In some states a juvenile is a person under the
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Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA 374 December 5‚ 2012 Jamie Loomis Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper This work summarizes the “Juvenile Arrests 2008”. This paper will summarize the key points of the “Juvenile Arrests 2008” and will address the following in this paper. The overall decrease in juvenile arrests‚ The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults and Implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities. The writer will also address the increase
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Juvenile Crime Statistics Crime is not an act that is limited to adults. Not all crime is considered illegal for adults but is for juveniles. Juveniles are subject to committing criminal acts whether it is due to peer pressure‚ problems in the home‚ or just simply because they want to. Juveniles are subject to committing the same types of crimes as adults along with status offenses. Status offenses are acts that are not considered illegal for adults but are for juveniles (Champion‚ 2010). In this
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Abstract Juvenile Delinquency has been a huge problem here in The United States. It has risen in past years and is projected to increase until 2015. With this current threat on the rise the U.S. have tried to analye the many causes and factors that may cause juvenile delinquency. As we take a look into the factors behind this problem we will also look into what changes has been made to the juvenile justice system to combat this.
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The Future of Juveniles In today’s society it is essential to understand the occurrence and prevention of juvenile crime. Numerous teenagers are becoming juvenile delinquents and society needs to know why. This paper will identify five concepts on which Team C believes to be the most significant social facts in the occurrence and prevention of juvenile delinquency. The paper will discuss recommendations for the future in which families‚ the community‚ law enforcement‚ probation and/or courts can
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Does only the juvenile drinking or drugging up suffer‚ or do others get involved? The answer is‚ not only do the users suffer‚ but so do their family‚ friends‚ and the community. However‚ due to the rise of juvenile’s becoming involved in substance abuse‚ the juvenile justice system has resulted in an increased burden. Over the past fifteen years‚ the fad of drug use among kids has steadily been increasing. Persistent substance abuse among youth is often accompanied by an array of problems‚ including
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Juvenile Death Penalty One of the most controversial questions in the juvenile justice system today is‚ "Should the death penalty be applied to juveniles?”. A lot of people think that the death penalty for juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment and should only be used for adults. The crimes that juveniles commit are as dangerous and as violent as adult crimes. People argue that the adolescent brain does not mature until the late teens or early twenties‚ and that death penalty should not be the
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Really “Old Enough To Do The Crime‚ Old Enough To Do The Time?” 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
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Juvenile delinquencies are minors who have committed a crime between the ages 10-18 years of age (Juvenile Delinquents). These children have commit crimes such as stealing‚ robbery‚ car jacking‚ selling drugs. Status offenses are crimes commit by teens that are under age‚ for the crime they committed. Such crimes included alcohol‚ curfew violation‚ truancy‚ and buying cigarettes. Alcohol is ethanol that can be an intoxicating agent (Alcohol). Alcohol use beings in adolescence and increases in rate
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