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    |The Department of Juvenile Justice System: |April 20 | |Realigning the Broken Standard |2012 | |[Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of |SB 81 Judgment and Review | |the document. Type the abstract of the document here

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    Club of Henderson County and the D.A.R.E. Program of Henderson County. I decided to write about local programs because it would give me the opportunity to learn more about juvenile delinquency prevention programs within my own community. Both programs are a huge staple within Henderson County and are two of the most important juvenile delinquency prevention programs within Henderson County. First I will report about the local Boys and Girls Club within Henderson County. On November 1st 1993 The Boys

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    Question: Should juvenile offenders be tried and punished as adults? Claim: Juvenile offenders shouldn’t be tried and punished as adults. I. Introduction a. There has been a lot of controversy over the issue of if juveniles should be tired and punished as adults. II. Harsh Policies Do not work http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/juvenile-justice/factsheets/youthasadults.pdf III. Adult Convictions Jeopardize Children’s Rights and Futures IV. Risks to Children’s Health V. These Policies

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    Should juvenile be tried as an adult or should they be tired as a kid. ​California should try juveniles as adults because they deserve the same punishment as adults. Juveniles deserved to be punish as adults because juveniles should know what is right and wrong no matter what age they are they should still know that they did something wrong. My whole life I have heard it said that kids will be forever be kids and don’t know the right between right and wrong. In recent discussion of On Punishment

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    Should juveniles be tried as adults? Some people disagree and others agree. Juveniles can be tired as adults committing crimes such as a DUI‚minor in possession‚robbery‚rape‚murder and any other crimes committed by an adult. The juveniles can be punished under the juvenile law. The juvenile law states that although most states try juveniles crime cases in juvenile court when the offenders is younger than 18‚ a few states have younger cutoffs (Juvenile Law). The treatment and successful reintegration

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    Juvenile criminals‚ conscious adults or underdeveloped children? When you’re dealing with children who committed a crime such as murder‚ it is hard to judge if whether they should be tried as an adult or as a child. I think that juveniles should be tried as adults because if children brain development was the reason they kill others‚ then they teens would kill at around the same rate around the world. First‚ if children are not tried as adults and are released there is no telling if they will

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    The Juvenile Justice Process Detric Johnson Professor Robert Roth CRJ 180 13 May 2012 Juvenile Justice Process Intake | Decision to Detain | Qualified Right to Post Bail | Decision to Petition the Case | Prosecutor Decision Making | Dismiss or handle Informally | Petition by requesting adjudication | Waive to adult court for prosecution | Adjudication | Arraignment | Adjudication Hearing | | Disposition | Predisposition Report | Disposition Hearing | | The first step or stage

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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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    Over five million people are under the supervision of the criminal justice systems in the United States. Approximately‚ 1.6 million are incarcerated in local‚ state‚ and federal institutions. The remaining‚ or almost 70 percent of those under the responsibility of the criminal justice system‚ are being supervised in the community on probation or parole. This means that at any one time a large number of U.S. citizens are in the community under correctional supervision. For example‚ nearly 2 percent

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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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