committed by juvenile offenders every day and to gain a better understanding as to why they commit such crimes the trends have to be evaluated. The following statistics are findings made in 2008. These findings will give a clear understanding of the overall decrease in juvenile arrests made‚ touch base on the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults‚ provide implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities‚ examine the increase in arrests of juvenile females and the
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change within time creating too many rights for the criminal and giving light punishment. Punishment and the correction system make drastic changes every century‚ and the understandings of both are complicated do to their changes. A part of society wants harsh punishment to comeback and the other big part are not agreeing with incarceration it all. Imprisonment later changes into corrections in the mid-1950s because punishing and treating criminals became an industry. Before the 1950s there was
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FOUNDATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM There are some important differences in the juvenile and adult courts‚ which protect the offenders. When dealing with cases in the juvenile courts the age of the juvenile is taken into consideration‚ along with the nature of the offense. This protects the juvenile from being tried as an adult if the age‚ nature of the crime and even the mentality doesn’t warrant that the juvenile be tried as an adult. For example‚ if a 13 year old juvenile stole a car and went
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Juvenile Justice Reform Act Effects on Society vs. the Juveniles Themselves Juvenile Delinquency Abstract Juvenile justice is the area of criminal law that applies to those individuals that aren’t of age to be held responsible for criminal acts. The age‚ in most states‚ for a juvenile criminal‚ is set at 18 years. While being mainly governed by state law‚ juvenile law usually enacts a juvenile code. Although the main goal of the juvenile justice system
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CORRECTIONS AND TREATMENT There is a wide choice of correctional treatments available for juveniles‚ which can be subdivided into two major categories‚ which are community treatment and institutional treatment. Community treatment refers to efforts to provide care‚ protection‚ and treatment for juveniles in need. Institutional treatment facilities are correctional centers operated by federal‚ state‚ and county governments. These facilities restrict the movement of residents through staff monitoring
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RUNNING HEAD: HISTORY OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Juvenile Delinquency: The History of the Juvenile Justice System Shandi Lillard Kaplan University CJ 150 – 02 Professor Raymond Keefauvor June 14‚ 2011 The History of the Juvenile Justice System The Juvenile Justice System is seen by many as being ineffective in treating the youth of this country‚ the programs are outdated and there seems to be little‚ if any hope that these youth will stay on the right path once released back
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Juveniles The United States take juvenile offenders very seriously because these juvenile offenders can become even worse offenders when they are adults. Not letting a juvenile get away with a warning or minor charge from what they should of got‚ helps teenagers understand that there are consciousness for their actions. If other teenagers observe and are aware that the Criminal Justice field is not going to take petty on them it will stir them away from trouble. It is better to teach someone right
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whilst providing justice and deterring crime. Within the criminal justice system‚ there are practices in use to identify how an offender is classed and treated an example of these are instrumental factors and non-instrumental factors. Instrumental functions are purposes of control and prevention‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation and incapacitation. It aims to deter offenders and stop them from re-committing any crime‚ practices in place to deter criminals are jail‚ juvenile detention‚ corrections facilities
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youth is neglected. If youth with disabilities were help more‚ than this particular group would not have a huge increase in correction facilities. In Kvarfordt‚ Purcell‚ and Shannon’s article of "Youth with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: A Training Needs Assessment of Detention and Court Services Personnel" (2005)‚ talks about the roles of corrections personnel in their pursuit to helping youth with learning disabilities in youth detention. There was a point made where youth
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1 The aims and values of ‘criminal justice’ Let no-one be in any doubt‚ the rules of the game are changing. (Former Prime Minister Tony Blair‚ 5 August 2005). Key issues: • The structure of the criminal justice system • Blurring civil and criminal boundaries: ASBOs and similar • Proving guilt and innocence: burden and standard of proof • Adversarial and inquisitorial approaches • Recent trends in crime and criminal justice • Packer’s ‘due process’ and ‘crime control’ models • The human
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