1. Adjudicatory Hearing – The Criminal Justice Today textbook defines the term adjudicatory hearing as “the fact-finding process by which the juvenile court determines whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain the allegations in a petition” (Schmalleger 510). These types of trials are designated for juveniles‚ which are similar in nature to adult trials‚ with notable exceptions. Similarities derive from the fact that the due process rights of children and adults are essentially the same. Essentially
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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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I have had lots of opportunities to work as a member of a team especially as a student of Honors Program. Honors Program is a two years research based program that provides space and resources for students to conduct group research in the first year‚ and independent research in the second year. I am working with two other students to complete a semester-long research project. For our research‚ we are looking at how plastics bottles can be repurposed to build walls of houses. My teammates are art
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Juvenile court is a special court used to handle cases involving children usually under the age of 18‚in some states 17‚ and in incredibly serious cases‚ children down to the age of 11 were moved to adult courts. Juvenile court came to be because of a change in ideology in the 1800’s involving children who have committed crimes. Before then children went through the same process as adult criminals at the time‚ but juvenile court was supposed to focus more on the rehabilitation of the child instead
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Should the Juvenile Court be Abolished? I. Introduction The purpose of this paper will be to examine the juvenile court system and whether or not abolishing it is the practical thing to do. To start off with‚ I will give a brief history of what the juvenile court system consist of and what it was designed to do. Next I will go into both sides of the debate to determine whether or not to abolish the juvenile court system. We will first take a look at the two concepts of the juvenile court system
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Tanishia Davis Juvenile Justice System Ledetra 2/10/15 The Future of the Juvenile Justice System • • • • Community involvement in law enforcement courts Sentencing corrections Trends of the juvenile justice system Causation theories Law Enforcement Community Involvement Positive police-community relations are critical for the effectiveness of crime prevention. Many police have made efforts to connect by doing neighborhood watch and community night out. This effort is especially need in the
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“Social Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency” Artie Swift Kaplan University CJ445: Case Management in Juvenile Justice Unit 8 Final Essay Professor Kathryn Sellers 02/03/2014 The juvenile generation of today has drifted far from the family values that their parents grew up with and tried to pass along to them but there are many loop holes in the generations of yesterday and today. Although‚ it is not easy to find the true connection between the practices of early childhood
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Juvenile Crime Statistics Angela Coffey CJA/374 May 13‚ 2015 Professor Erica Williams Juvenile Crime Statistics The overall decrease in juvenile arrests according to Puzzanchera (December 2009)‚ “the latest data reflect such progress‚ with a 3% decline in overall juvenile arrests from 2007 to 2008 and a 2% decrease in juvenile arrests for violent offenses over the same timeframe.” In addition to Puzzanchera (December 2009)‚ “similar positive trends are
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One phase of the juvenile court process that is important is the release or detain phase. The detain or release phase is extremely important because at this point the court decides if they want to release a child to their guardian or sentence them to a juvenile correction facility. “Detention can be a traumatic experience because many facilities are prison-like‚ with locked doors and barred windows; Consequently‚ most experts in juvenile justice advocate that detention be limited to alleged offenders
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Ebony Dickens Causal Factors of Juvenile Delinquency: A Proposed Study Research Methods Grand Canyon University December 21‚ 2011Introduction Juvenile delinquency‚ despite falling overall rates of crime in the United States‚ remains a serious problem in this country. Around 2.5 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes in America‚ of which around 100‚000 are violent crimes; however‚ it is estimated that this issue may be much larger than arrests show‚ because only about half of
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