Delinquent Offenses Juvenile delinquency is a big problem in the United States‚ where 92‚854 minors were incarcerated in residential facilities for juveniles in 2006. In fact‚ about 17% of all the people arrested in the United States are under the age of 18. Not only does the problem affect the victims of the crime; it also affects the juvenile deliquent’s family‚ future‚ and society as a whole. The most obvious people affected by juvenile delinquency are the victims. Whether the crime involves theft
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Natalie Marler SOC 2600 Dr. Taylor 09th March 2016 Should Juveniles be tried as adults? In 2010‚ juveniles committed 8% of homicides. (PBS 2014) When it comes to trying juveniles as adults‚ many people think that this is too harsh of a punishment for young criminals‚ but others think that they should get what they deserve. There is a famous saying “do the crime‚ do the time”. Our society tends to think that juveniles do not have the mental‚ and physical stabilities that adults do. Over the years
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Crime Theories Jaime Morris Professor Al CIS170-Wk.4Ass.2 11/04/12 Digital crimes are believed to be caused by different types of theories. The Strain theory could be the cause of digital crimes because the strain of everyday life. The Strain theory is a sociological theory. The strain of an individual’s everyday life is causing people to “give in” to the pressures in society. Some of these individuals feel that they can’t survive without crime. Strains such as peer pressure
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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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Our youth today are encountering many issues compare to several years ago. Today I would like to share a least (10) issue our juvenile justice are seeing. 1). Parents or caregiver Incarcerate 2). Sex Offender 3). Drug addicted 4). Drug dealer 5). Behavior problems 6). Abuse 7). Lack of support 8). Gang 9). Mental Health 10). Homeless I am suggesting (10) proactive approach to combat the problems. For those children whose parent is incarcerated‚ for the older youth‚ they will have the opportunity
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Juveniles Being Tried As Adults I. Introduction A. Did you know that just about every juvenile offender who has a past criminal history‚ or is arrested for a violent crime like rape or murder‚ is tried in an adult court? 1. According to a non-profit organization called Equal Justice Iniative there are over 2200 juveniles nationwide who have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 2. Children as young as 13 years of age have been tried as adults and sentenced
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sudden increase in youth crime rate in 90’s‚ many states started to put juveniles to the adult court believing that this could bring down the crime rate. Some studies showed that starting to put youth in adult prisons helped the crime rate go down‚ but had no effect on violent crime rate. Many voices came up for easing the law for juveniles to not to be sentenced as adults due to decrease in youth crime rate from 2000. On the other hand‚ some people say that sentencing juvenile criminals as adults can
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separate juvenile justice system or should we abolish it is a huge debate in the U.S. Is the separate‚ juvenile justice system still feasible? If not‚ what can replace it? Policymakers need to confront these questions‚ and they need innovative answers. New policies should aim for more than simply abolishing the juvenile court’s delinquency jurisdiction and sending all young offenders to conventional criminal courts. The focus of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate juveniles‚ rather
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even life. When a youth commits a crime‚ they are considered juveniles and are dealt with the Juvenile Justice Department. The Juvenile Justice Department decides what kind of punishment the Juvenile gets and in some cases‚ they are waivered into adult court and punished the same way an adult would be punished. It is right to punish a juvenile with sufficient amount of punishment‚ but to punish them the same way as an adult is wrong after teaching them
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question‚ “Does a person’s IQ level really affects their probability of committing a crime and if lack of intelligence increases criminal behavior throughout a person’s life.” Some believe that IQ is a more important variable than race‚ social or economical class in foretelling criminal behavior. The theory of crime being linked to a person’s intelligence says that if IQ does not affect the probability of crime‚ it can have a chain reaction. Academic incompetence as a child is the stressor for many
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