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    designation of our Supreme Court is to guarantee the honesty of the power allowed to Court Justices and protect them against unjust interference from either the legislative or executive branch. And also to protect our Supreme Judges from political pressure. But‚ I believe this can still be done by setting an specific time for the judge to leave the position and therefore‚ I believe it is unnecessary for judges to hold their position for lifetime. Having our Supreme Court Justice serving on the bench

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    Juveniles Tried as Adults

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    Paper Over two hundred thousand juveniles are tried as adults every year. Yes‚ the saying “You do the crime‚ you do the time‚” may evidently need to be set in stone for every criminal‚ but a child? To make this country fair the United States of America needs to stop prosecuting and putting teens on trial as adults. Ignorance of not knowing the law is not an adequate excuse‚ that may be necessarily true‚ but if the country wants to be considered “fair” then the court system needs to understand that

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    Juvenile Court System

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    The juvenile system started in the17th century‚ when there were very little legal differences that existed among kids and adults. Adolescence as underdeveloped as seven were measured productive citizens and could be tried if found guilty. Kids were incarcerated with hardened criminals and some even received the death consequence for their crimes as adults. So‚ the first Juvenile court System was established in 1899‚ in Cook County Illinois in Chicago. The purpose was to separate kids who had been

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    | Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility‚ and Sentencing Policy | Barry C. Field | | | | | CJ523-01N: Critical Issues in Juvenile Justice Page 1 The article Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility and Sentencing Policy by Barry Fields is power packed with his research‚ his opinions on the Juvenile Justice System. There is no question why he has reached the conclusions that he has because his research

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    Juvenile Drug Courts

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    Drug Courts came about as a result of a backlogged court system and a steady‚ rapidly increasing prison population. Drug courts are a form of diversion that helps the offender through rehabilitation and the community through an increased sense of protection‚ which serves the best interest of everyone. Drug Courts are community based intermediate sanctions that incorporate treatment principles into the Criminal Justice System and divert drug offenders from traditional punishments of probation and

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    Juvenile Court Workgroup

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    Juvenile Court Workgroup Maylyn M. Leon MACJ 512 Seminar in Court System Dr. Caroline Dennis December 16‚ 2014 Juvenile Court Workgroup The courtroom workgroup of juvenile court is very similarly composed as one of adult’s court (Neubauer and Fradella‚ 2014). Inside the juvenile court you can find the prosecutor‚ the defense attorney and the judge and sometimes judges have the hearing officers as aid (Neubauer and Fradella‚ 2014). We can see much equality between the courts however

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    Determining whether a juvenile is identified as a child or an adult is quite simple. If a juvenile is under the age of 18 then he or she is not an adult and if a juvenile has graduated from high school then he or she is identified as an adult. I believe that if a juvenile has not developed a certain level of intelligence or has not emotionally developed then they can’t be identified as an adult. In addition to that‚ although juveniles may have developed the sense of knowing right from wrong they

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    being committed by young children. Now the court system is trying to put young children in adult prisons‚ but that is unacceptable. Juvenile criminals should not receive the same punishment as adults because they have a higher chance of getting raped or killed‚ they are still too immature‚ and they are more likely to commit a crime again. If juveniles get sent to adult prisons they have a higher chance of getting raped or being killed. “Juveniles sent to adult prisons are 7.7 times more likely to commit

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    The Juvenile Court System

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    Any court system of any country is designed to punish the offender and keep all the citizens secured from attacks and harassment from their neighbors as they go about their daily chores. Hover‚ due to the age difference of the offenders‚ there is the need to design and develop a juvenile justice system which is formed with a sole purpose of taking care of the needs and desires of the youths who can be deprived basic needs of development and can be harassed if taken to the adult prisons. The juvenile

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    More and more juveniles are being incarcerated in adult prisons because of legislation dropping the age juveniles are allowed to be tried as an adult and expanding the list that are considered adult crimes.  States vary as to how old and where a juvenile is incarcerated.  They may have to wait until a certain age to be transferred to an adult facility or they have to go in ight after sentencing.  Sometimes they are in the general population of adults and others they try to keep them in different

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