Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Terri Jinks CJA/374 October 15‚ 2012 Jerry Kilgo Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections The juvenile justice system contains a thorough selection of systems and combined facilities intended to assist the youths that enter the system and the community‚ by extension (Champion‚ 2010). Nevertheless‚ the age limits are defined by federal laws and characteristically consist of juvenile wrongdoers seven-18‚ states regulate the methods of judgment‚ juvenile
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The juvenile justice system needs to better prepare youth to enter the adult world and workplace. Per Virginia Performs‚ “Within twelve months 49.1% of the juvenile offenders released will be rearrested.” This is almost fifty percent. The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice records recidivism by tracking rearrests‚ reconvictions‚ and reincarceration for twelve months after release from a juvenile correctional center. Recidivism is the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend. The juvenile
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responsibility. The choice theory also has 10 Axioms that are based on a therapy method that is all about serving customers taught to formulate excellent choices. Some of the axioms are: behaviors that he or she choose but mainly those he or she act on‚ one that he or she can control‚ relationships long term and short term‚ behavior is made up of four mechanism- physiology‚ feeling‚ acting and thinking‚ and all behaviors are divided into verbs. Everyone as a choice in life whether if he or she decides
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and the Law paper Spring 2010 Should Juveniles Be Tried As Adults? In today’s society‚ there is a national debate about what to do with juveniles in the criminal justice system. This debate is a result changes in practice throughout United States. The United States made it possible to try juveniles as adults in court after the case of Kent vs. the United States in 1966. The change in legislation is relatively new due to the fact that juvenile courts have "for most of the past century‚
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books and experts can give us many theories as to the causes of juvenile delinquency‚ including one’s economic background‚ substance abuse‚ peer groups‚ repeated exposure to violence through the family circit‚ increased availability of firearms and media violence‚ however‚ I feel that the number one cause of juvenile delinquency is the breakdown of families‚ including lack of parental control over children. It is ironic that one must have a driver’s license to operate a car‚ a permit to own
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I have heard the police repeat the Miranda right time and again in television movies involving police and crime suspect. Prior to my MS in forensic psychology program in Walden University‚ I had not the slightest idea that the words embedded in Miranda rights are actually legal right‚ I thought they were mere lines used in movie acting and I never envisaged its importance; even Police in Nigerian movies recites this right to crime suspects even though the Nigerian constitution is silence about such
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An alternative to juvenile offenders facing time at a juvenile facility is for them to attend a boot camp. Boot camps are a detention center in which youthful offenders are detained for a limited period of time. Boot camps are structured in a fashion that is modeled in a way similar to military training camps. These boot camps target criminal offenders that are under the age of 18. The goal of these militant boot camps is to take juvenile offenders and modify their problem behaviors‚ which include
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All programs need to undergo an evaluation process. The evaluation of a program helps to determine whether the program is meeting the set goals and objectives. During the life time of a program‚ the program undergoes several changes and adjustments. It is through the program evaluation that the changes and adjustments are identified. The identification of the adjustments gives room for implementation of the necessary adjustments. Proper program evaluation will tell if the objectives are met in a
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Sexual violence is defined as forceful sexual acts committed against another person’s will or without their consent (Keogh‚ 2012). Juveniles do not become sexually violent overnight; most youths experience some type of traumatic experience that can have a negative influence on how they development (Rasmussen‚ Lev-Wiesel‚ Eisikovits‚ 2013). A juvenile that is sexually violent towards other minors are seeking power and control and have more sexual knowledge than the average child (Righthand‚ Welch
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The legal concept of juvenile status is relatively new. The juvenile court system was established in the United States a little more than a century ago. The first court appearing was in Cook County‚ Illinois in 1899. Prior to that time‚ children and youth were seen as small adults and were tried and punished as adults. Until the late 19th century‚ the criminal courts tried youth and adults. The sixteenth century educational reform movement in England that had perceived youth to be different from
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