Juvenile Corrections & Treatment Your name CJS 240 October 24‚ 2010 The Juvenile corrections system has various methods to support the underlying goal of rehabilitation and reform. This system affects the entire community in its successes and failures; members of the society should take time to understand what efforts are being made to reform these young offenders and what obstacles must be eliminated to make it more effective. The following paper will attempt to summarize community
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My name is Steven Adams. I currently work for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections as A Youth Corrections Officer. The work is very interesting because of the type of youth that you come in contact with and they are at a very challenging point in their lives. I spend most of my time supervising the kids but have also become certified as a group facilitator in the Seven Challenges Program which is the substance abuse program that we run on the facility. I have coached Youth in the Past as
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections A description of the process the juvenile will follow after arrest‚ from intake‚ through court‚ sentencing‚ and punishment or rehabilitation. The process should be based on actual state laws and practices of your state or a state in which you are familiar. I will be using Case study two which is as follows: Xander L. is a 17-year-old African American male and documented gang member. His prior juvenile adjudications
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Lanika Alexander CJA/374 November 12‚ 2012 Deatrice Haney Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections When I first got picked up I was really scared but I knew what I had done was wrong. I had been breaking into houses for a while now. Always in and out real quick and I always picked the houses where I knew the owners were at work because they all lived on the same street as me so I knew their schedules as well as I knew my own. But this time it
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Terri Jinks CJA/374 October 15‚ 2012 Jerry Kilgo Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections The juvenile justice system contains a thorough selection of systems and combined facilities intended to assist the youths that enter the system and the community‚ by extension (Champion‚ 2010). Nevertheless‚ the age limits are defined by federal laws and characteristically consist of juvenile wrongdoers seven-18‚ states regulate the methods of judgment‚ juvenile
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Juvenile Justice Process and Correction Keith Betts CJA/374 September 30‚ 2012 Xander L. is a young man with a rough start in life‚ who is a known gang member‚ and has been in and out of the juvenile court system on numerous occasions. The 17-year-old young man has been involved in various crimes‚ such as purse snatching‚ breaking and entering‚ and drug possession. The juvenile offender previously served one year
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections University of Phoenix November 21‚ 2012 Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections The following research will discuss the juvenile process system. Starting with the intake process it will discuss each step of the process and the options the defendant will be given. There are concerns and certain weaknesses the process has where it may give opportunity of unlawful and informal negotiation may be occurring. It will also further discuss the considered
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The juvenile justice system has been around since the late 19th century. Before this time if a juvenile committed a crime they would be tried in the same court system as an adult. Today‚ this would seem very strange or unfair to most people. But‚ before the end of the 19th century there were no court systems designed for juvenile offenders. When it came to prosecuting juveniles in the adult court system‚ it had to be determined whether or not a juvenile could be criminally responsible for their actions
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Being a correctional officer in a juvenile center is more than taking care of them but you get to fulfill many other roles in the facility. Those roles consist of parents‚ counselor‚ and caretaker. The inmates may consider you as the enemy and others may see you as a father/mother figure. The inmates spent most of their time with the correctional officer and by virtue they will be comfortable sharing their struggles with you. The correctional officers are expected to follow all policies and procedural
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Roles of a Juvenile Probation Officer Professor Janette Nichols Juvenile Justice Axia College (University of Phoenix) May 22‚ 2008 Marla Ognyanov Roles of a Juvenile Probation Officer Page 2 The Juvenile Court process is a very complex and often misunderstood system. This information is presented from the rules of Houston County‚ (Dothan‚ Alabama)‚ and provides the role and responsibilities of the Office of Juvenile Probation.
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