A juvenile court is a court of law responsible for the trial or legal supervision of children under the age of 18. In most cases‚ a juvenile case is handled much differently than an adult criminal case. Instead of going to a county court or a criminal district‚ juvenile cases are sent directly to a juvenile court. This court deals with issues ranging from drug dependency issues to truancy. Parents or guardians of the juvenile are required to appear and participate with the final settlement of the
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Concern in Juvenile Forensic Psychology When a crime is committed by a juvenile should they be automatically treated as an adult? This is definitely a question that arises when the crime is an aggressive one or heinous in its occurrence. This is circumstance presents forensic psychologists specializing in the area of the juvenile court system will become involved in. They share many of the same responsibilities as do their counterparts practicing within the adult legal system but when a juvenile becomes
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Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Crime Russell Spinks CJA/204/Introduction to Criminal Justice March 11‚ 2013 Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Crime When we start to discuss juvenile delinquency and juvenile crimes it can sometimes become complicated because of age limitations that come within the bounds of the law. Each state has their own interpretation of what is considered a juvenile in the juvenile justice system. Juveniles in the State of Louisiana are defined
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1. What is the history and development of the juvenile court and justice process? The history of the juvenile court and system dates back to the year 1824 in the United States‚ which was “The House of Refuge” in New York. “The House of Refuge was the first juvenile house of the United States. In 1899‚ Cook County in the state of Illinois established the first juvenile court. Youth in the juvenile court system dating back before the year of 1967 did not have constitutional legal rights. It was not
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The Juvenile Court Act and Juvenile Justice Procedures – Midterm Essays [NAME] [CLASS-SECTION] – Juvenile Delinquency Professor [NAME] JUVENILE RIGHTS There have been many significant rulings made by the Supreme Court involving juvenile rights in the juvenile court system which attempt to balance parens patriae and juvenile rights. The cases involving Morris Kent‚ Jr.‚ Gerald Gault‚ Samuel Winshhip‚ and McKeiver stand out as most significant in the effort to strike this delicate balance. The 1961
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Juveniles Incarcerated with Adults Today I will be speaking about juveniles incarcerated with adults. Are adolescents really prepared to live in an environment with adults? ’They may be sentenced as adults but they’re still adolescents. The move to punish youthful offenders as adults came in response to a steep rise in the juvenile murder rate in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Teenage prisoners were increasingly seen to be as morally culpable and responsible as adults. Forty-five states
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obligations of those who are subject to it. It defines the legal relationship of one person with another or between them and the state. Substantive justice stands in contrast to procedural law‚ which comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil or criminal proceedings. Procedural justice deals with the method and means by which substantive justice is made and administered. The time allowed for one party to sue another and the rules of law governing the process of the lawsuit
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term paper on juvenile justice system in nepal Juvenile Justice System 1. Introduction: Juvenile are the children below the age of 18 years. Nepalese legal system considers a child as juvenile if he is below the age of 16. Those juvenile consider children are not matured mentally and emotionally so the justice system for juvenile and adults are different. The term juvenile justice refers to the legislation norms and standards procedures mechanism and provisions
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Juvenile transfer is the process of removing juvenile offenders from the juvenile court and placing them into the adult court. Although states implement this process in varying ways‚ it is seen in different viewpoints as either having a positive effect on juveniles or a negative effect. Studies have been conducted examining the statistics regarding recidivism for juveniles who have been transferred to the adult court versus those who have not. After taking a look at these two perspectives‚ I have
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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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