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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Universal Crime Report (UCR)‚ burglaries in the South Region of the United States declined from 2011 – 2012‚ but in cities of less than 10‚000 residents there was an increase. Attalla‚ Alabama lies within the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of just over 6‚000 placing it within the aforementioned statistical area for populations of less than 10‚000. The UCR reports that nationwide burglary rates had a very small increase for the reporting period in 2012. (Universal Crime Report
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Thousands of juveniles‚ which are people under 18‚ are locked away in detention centers each year due to crime. The juvenile justice system is more focused on the child than the actual crime he or she commits. Young people are not fully developed when it comes to their mental‚ emotional‚ and the physical state. Juveniles are sent to detention facilities due to the justice system wanting them to be separated from adults.The detention centers are to rehabilitate young people or restore them with normality
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they are no longer being tried for crimes in juvenile courts. One or two years younger than eighteen does not make much of a difference. It is not fair for one person‚ just seventeen years of age‚ to be tried in a juvenile
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justice system should exist for juveniles and adults. While some juveniles have demonstrated the need for a separate justice system for juveniles‚ others have proven otherwise. There are separate justice systems for juvenile and adult offenders because of the belief that the mind of juveniles can be reformed unlike adult offenders. However‚ the juvenile justice system is similar to the adult justice system in many ways. In terms of the rights of the offenders‚ both juvenile and adult offenders have the
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CYBER CRIME Cyber-crime or cyber terrorism has emerged as a new way of spreading terror and harming people as individuals or communities as a whole. With development of computers and technology‚ they have been employed by a section of people to commit offences. Cyber-crime at a lower level can be used to harm an individual person causing him physical or mental harm directly or indirectly. At a larger level‚ Communities or nations as a whole can be terrorized causing them financial‚ social‚ cultural
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Neuroplasticity; can we grow out of crime? Neuro-plasticity is the process by which the brain reorganizes itself by forming new connections. According to Stephanie Liou; “it allows the neurons in the brain to compensate for injury and adjust their activity in response to new situations or changes in their environment.” When looking at research featuring neuroplasticity reorganisation we often think of post brain injury incidents‚ however this is not always the case. Conditions in our environment
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Does Juveniles should be punished as an adult if they have commit a crime? Every year in the United states‚ an estimated 250‚000 children under the age of 18 are tried‚ sentenced or imprisoned as adults. And of these ‚ around 100‚000 actually end up in adult jails and prisons ‚ with many spending time in solitary confinement. About 37% are Non-Hispanic Black males‚ 25% are Non-Hispanic White‚ 23% are Hispanic males‚ 7.9% are all females and 6% are other males. I disagree that juveniles should be
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are meant to be a temporarily placement for troubled juveniles that have a potential high risk of reoffending or may likely not appear for their trial date. “Detention centers do serve a role by temporarily supervising the most at risk youths” (Ruddell‚ 2009). Today‚ the use of detention centers for juveniles are steadily increasing which only mean one thing‚ crime rates are increasing. The significant of this problem is with the many juvenile centers are they helpful for our troubled teens or do
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whether the juvenile system should be left with only one judicial system where the same rules apply to both adults and juveniles remaining. Children have been tried as adults without any consideration of their age or crime committed. Only after their teenage years does a child realize important concepts and rules society expects. Research shows that the prosecution of juveniles as adults does not help reduce crime and can affect some psychologically as well. About 250‚000 juvenile youth are prosecuted
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