| Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility‚ and Sentencing Policy | Barry C. Field | | | | | CJ523-01N: Critical Issues in Juvenile Justice Page 1 The article Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility and Sentencing Policy by Barry Fields is power packed with his research‚ his opinions on the Juvenile Justice System. There is no question why he has reached the conclusions that he has because his research
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Part I: Community Assessment and Analysis Hunterdon County‚ New Jersey Amy Beddow‚ RN.‚ Sherry Byk‚ RNC.‚ Amber Walker RN.‚ and Teri Zimowski RN. Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V-0105 Concepts in Community Health October 27‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION Hunterdon County‚ New Jersey has a vast array of community dynamics that are team has researched. Hunterdon County is the 18th most populated county in the state of New Jersey out of
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have had an incredible impact on the U.S. juvenile justice system. The original purpose of creating a separate juvenile court was to keep adolescents out of adult prisons‚ limit their exposure to adult criminal activity and poor role models‚ and also to provide guidance that helps them to turn away from further criminal behavior and be directed toward more positive results. It seemed that the individual juvenile offender cases were not getting looked at based on the individual characteristics or needs
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Juvenile Court Process Elisha Lambert CJS/220 5/23/12 Reginald Anthony Before juvenile courts existed‚ children’s parent would determine their punishment. The odds of a child going through the court system were slim. Today when law enforcement arrests a juvenile the officer decides were the juvenile will go based the crime. Juvenile court has partial jurisdiction which means that they can only hear certain cases (Meyer & Grant‚ 2003). Normally
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Crime Prevention Programs Vickie L. Epperson CRJ 305 ~ Crime Prevention Jeffery Cudworth July 09‚ 2012 I found the history of crime prevention very interesting and learned much about how this country has evolved to the various new theories regarding crime and its prevention. It has only taken the United States 200 years of failure to finally start considering proactive methods regarding crime prevention versus reactive. As our textbook
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Analysis on Juvenile Justice Reform CJA/464 September 17‚ 2013 Raymond Smith Policy Analysis on Juvenile Justice Reform Within this paper the writer will be discuss the public policy on Juvenile Justice Reform. Within the paper the writer will describe the issue‚ tell if the policy a regulatory or legislative-initiated policy‚ and who initiated the issue or policy. Also the writer will discuss is there a constitutional issue‚ and how will the issue or policy affect the community‚ the accused
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crime and form a peaceful‚ law abiding society. In doing this there would have to be a balance with criminal justice and the rights of the individual accused with society’s need for order. The extent of the efficiency of the juvenile justice system‚ media’s influence over juveniles and their impact on society’s need for order and the possible solutions to the problems arising from these systems‚ need to be changed in order to reduce the high rate of youth crime. In
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my high school community and my university community at Grand Valley State University. While a student at Detroit Catholic Central High School (CC)‚ I made an impact through establishing a leadership club called “Shamrock Lead.” The club is based on the values of leadership‚ service and mentorship. These three values were put into action by holding monthly leadership forums between students and faculty‚ participating in monthly service projects‚ and creating two mentorship programs. The mentorship
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Outline: Constitutional Rights and Due Process in Juvenile Courts Christopher McCollum Juvenile Justice Professor Tiffany Roberson 9 June 2013 Outline: Constitutional Rights and Due Process in Juvenile Courts I. Introduction: Many people would currently be surprised to find that youths being tried by Juvenile Courts are not afforded the basic rights guaranteed to our nation’s citizens by our Constitution. Advocates continue to push for more juvenile rights in the court system but many youths
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TYC has a long history of mistreating and abusing the youth that they house in their facilities. The employees and providers who run the care of these juvenile prisons not only neglect the needs of the youth imprisoned there‚ but also take advantage of the fact that these kids have nowhere else to run too. There have been multiple cases involving TYC employees and TYC inmates that were never brought to light‚ because of lack of supervision given to the facilities by the Texas government. TYC supervisor
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