Essay #1 As a public defender in the juvenile court‚ you have been asked to speak to a youth advocacy group about police and juveniles. In exactly three paragraphs‚ summarize “what the police don’t want you to know.” Under no circumstances should a child ever be interrogated by the police without a lawyer present. Juveniles have the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer‚ but often are not made aware of this. Instead‚ a majority of children waive their rights to a lawyer and are interrogated
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My concerned issue is juvenile delinquency. The reason I choose juvenile delinquency is because I felt it can be explained well by looking at the social learning theory. According to Siegel & Welsh (2012) social learning theory is applied to criminal behavior‚ theory stressing the importance of learning through modeling others who are criminal; criminal behavior is a function of copying or learning criminal conduct from others. The social learning theory argues that juveniles imitate what they see
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Justice for Juveniles Capital punishment is the ultimate punishment that can be received by a convicted criminal in a capital offence. Capital punishment ultimately means the convicted criminal will be executed upon their execution date given to them by a court of law. Today‚ only 33 states allow the death penalty and after the Supreme Court case of Roper v. Simmons (2005)‚ no states allow the death penalty for children under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Juvenile offenders typically have
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n 2006‚ the Philippines passed into law the Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Act (RA 9344) which raised the age of exemption from criminal liability from nine to 15 years. Thus‚ criminal offenders aged 15 years and below became automatically exempted from being tried and imprisoned for crimes they committed. The law also provides that youth offenders above 15 but below 18 may also be exempted from criminal liability if they can be shown to have acted without discernment. Discernment refers to the ability
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Against Juveniles tried as adults 3/28/2011 Sociology 101 Juveniles deserve a second chance at succeeding. The people have to remember that the children need our help and get them focus in positive things and give them the right guidance they need to succeed. There is various ways that a kid can get back on the right path‚ counseling‚ after school programs‚ rehabilitation‚ and‚ a positive role model. Each of these things have they own way to get the child involved. Counseling could also help
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transfer juveniles from the juvenile court to criminal court‚ I would look at what means would best serve the juvenile. The three most commonly used mechanisms are the juvenile wavier‚ prosecutorial wavier‚ and legislative wavier (Elrod & Ryder‚ 2014). Based upon my research‚ I would favor the judicial wavier. The results of a juvenile being transferred into adult court can have some negative consequences on a juvenile. A juvenile court usually focuses on rehabilitation of the accused juvenile; however
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Juvenile System Rough Draft Juveniles should be convicted as adults ‚ for violent crime like assault or murder because if they commit murder or something illegal ‚ they think they can get away with it and they don’t think that they are not gonna be caught. For Example‚ they can be killing someone and get away with it like nothing happened. So if kids commit crime ‚ then of course they should convicted as a criminal. Research suggest that adolescent squeezed through adult system are more
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is a need to view juvenile crime and punishment differently than adult crime and punishment. The reason for this is because some research has shown that recidivism rates among juvenile parolees are very high. It can range anywhere from fifty five percent to seventy five percent (Krisberg‚ Austin‚ and Steele‚ 1991). There is evidence that a vast majority of juvenile offenders who have been confined do not stop committing crimes when they are released. In fact‚ many juvenile offenders continue
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Juvenile Justice has been a prominent controversy in present day society. We can observe how the majority of crimes committed are being perpetrated by adolescents. The disputation arises on whether the Supreme Court justice should abolish mandatory life in prison for pubescents who commit the immorality of murder or authorize the punishment with parole. Although many can challenge this contrary issue‚ I concur with ideology of the Supreme Court ruling that juveniles who engage in murder could
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JUVENILE DELINQUECY- Juvenile Delinquency Introduction A “Juvenile” or “Child” means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age. According to International Law‚ a ‘Child’ means every human being below the age of 18 years. Today this is a universally accepted definition of a child which comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The notions about juvenile delinquency held by laymen and some law enforcement officials are faulty and misleading. For
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