The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the
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Social Justice Black Children in Education This essay aim to; discuss inequalities in education in relation to black children and how the principles of social justice affects them. The term ‘social justice’ can be defined in many ways. However; it is closely related to equality‚ fairness and solidarity. Social justice is seen to be occurring if an individual or community is treated without any prejudice regardless of their; race‚ gender‚ age or cultural beliefs. The term social justice suggests
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Clay Thompson article‚ “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many”‚ on the project censored website‚“ In California alone minors as young as 14 are being punished into the adult criminal justice system. As a result children face adult punishments sometimes as severe as life in prison” (Thompson). We have age limits on things because it is quite obvious that youth are not fully capable of making the right decisions. For one‚ the brains of
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29 January If you can’t do the time‚ don’t do the crime. In recent discussion of Juvenile Justice‚ a controversial issue has been whether juveniles should be tried as adults in adult courts for heinous crimes they have committed. On one hand‚ some argue that they should not be tried as adults and do not deserve harsh sentences but as children seeking help. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that those who commit such heinous
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Prevention Fund. Domestic Violence‚ Child Abuse‚ and Youth Violence: Strategies for Prevention and Early Intervention: Treat Kids Howell‚ J. (1995). Serious‚ Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. California: Sage. Johnson‚ C. (2010‚ 01 08). Justice study track rape‚ sexual abuse of juenile inmate. The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com Jordan Institute for Families. (2002‚ May ). Understanding Juvenile Sex Offenders. Children ’s Services Practice Notes for North Carolina ’s Child
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Intro to Criminal Justice Chapter 10–– 1. The Purpose of probation is the suspending and or delaying in a correctional term in jail so that‚ instead of being in jail‚ offenders are allowed almost a second chance and put back into the community for a period in which they must do the following (a) abide by certain conditions given by the court and (b) be supervised by a probation officer. Without probation jails would rapidly become even more overcrowded. Probation officers are the supervisor
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Juvenile Justice To many Americans today‚ the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today‚ we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November‚ thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden 66). In the same report‚ the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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Letter From Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Background - In the spring of 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. and his organization‚ the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)‚ targeted Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ with a series of peaceful demonstrations aimed at the ending segregation. The police reacted violently with attack dogs and high-pressure fire hoses. Hundreds of protesters‚ including King‚ were jailed. At first‚ King was criticized for taking on Birmingham; eight white
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1: What is the distinctions between official and unofficial sources of data on delinquency? official data is collect from governmental offices‚ DOJ‚ Juvenile courts or any data that are direct collected by government officials. Unofficial data is typically collected by secondary resources such as media‚ surveys and so forth. Unofficial data is less creditable because it cannot truly verify the validity of those information. 2: What types of data are contained in the UCR? The types of data
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serious criminal acts. Known as the "chronic 6 percent" is believed to engage in significant portion of all delinquent behavior‚ these youths do not age out of crime but continue their criminal behavior into adulthood. 6) Juvenile Justice System- The segment of the justice system including law enforcment officers‚ the courts‚ and the correction agencies‚ that is designed to treat youthful offenders. 7) Paternalistic Family- A family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters
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