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Provision(Section 1-8 -Civil Service Commission (Section 1-16) -Commission on Audit (Section 1-4) - Article 10 Local Government Article 11 Accountability of public officers Article 12 National Economy Fransistory Provisions D. Parens Patriae - Literally‚ this means father of the country. - This doctrine has been defined as the inherent power and authority of the state to provide protection to the persons & property of the person. Non - Sui - Juris = Persons who are those who
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A constant theme in the United States in the legal system is that criminals should be punished and the reasons for their crimes are rarely addressed. The Ocean Tides program is an innovative system rather than punishing juveniles it is an approach that hopes to rehabilitate adjudicated boys in Rhode Island within a year. Typically the more severe a crime is‚ the longer the criminal is sent away for. At the Ocean Tides program‚ 1 year is retrospectively the time that is used to help criminals readjust
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domestic and childrearing skills. The first juvenile courts were operated under the philosophy of parens patriae ‚in Prince v. Massachusetts (1944). Parens patriae meant the state could act "as a parent‚" and give juvenile courts the power to intervene whenever court officials felt intervention was in the best interests of a child. If any offense committed was secondary to the offender. While parents patriae was designed to handle youth committing crime‚ the discretion of the philosophy became way broader
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out against racism. Ward does a good job of going in chronological order to cover many topics‚ especially in part two of the book and pre/post-civil rights movement eras. There is a natural flow of the book which starts from the beginning of parens patriae and ends with Ward’s ideas on how to proceed and the differing developments that have limited the potential for African Americans to impose their ever-present concerns with the juvenile justice
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adults without any rights *if found guilty they were sentenced just as adults were *New York City House of Refuge‚ the first youth prison opened in 1825 *during the 1800’s the juvenile justice system exercised its authority within a "parens patriae" which meant state as parent or guardian role. The state assumed responsibility of parenting the children until they begin to show changes *Many refuge homes were similar to orphanages *the refuge houses provided education‚ physical exercise
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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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punish‚ the priority of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate and reform juvenile offenders. Additionally‚ the court or state has the right and responsibility to act like the parent for a child if the family is unable to do so through the Parens Patriae doctrine. In the juvenile justice system‚ juvenile offenders are given a hearing‚ whereas in the adult justice system‚ adult offenders are given a trial. Juveniles are prosecuted for committing delinquent acts. Adults are prosecuted for committing
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and that the judge should have provided a written statement of the reasons for waiver. Technically‚ the Kent decision applied only to D.C. courts‚ but its impact was more widespread. The Court raised a potential constitutional challenge to parens patriae as the foundation of the juvenile court. In its past decisions‚ the Court had interpreted the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to mean that certain classes of
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There are many social factors that can contribute to juvenile delinquency. One that has risen to the forefront has been the role the family plays in delinquency. It has become increasingly obvious that a child’s family can have a significant impact on the child’s level of deviance (Matherne &Thomas‚ 2001). In fact‚ research has shown that children with strong parental ties are less likely than their peers without these ties to become delinquent. However‚ this is only the beginning. Parents obviously
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