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    Juvenile Justice in Today’s Day and Age Abstract This paper contains many articles containing information gathered from a psychological aspect and a criminal justice aspect. There are multiple ways that society has impacted our juveniles. The economy has also had an affect on the way our juveniles are raised‚ behave‚ and their personal outcomes that have had an impact on today’s society. The importance of communities banning together to help keep an eye on one another’s children can have a

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    The first article is “Making Juvenile Justice LGBT-Friendly”. This article is by J.B. Wogan‚ and was published March 2016. Approximately ten years ago‚ the first lawsuit targeting the treatment of LGBT juveniles was addressed in the state of Hawaii. During which time‚ the American Civil Liberties Union states that three youths that were being held at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility had unfortunately been harassed‚ and even abused‚ because of their gender identity‚ and sexual orientation. It

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    Juvenile Crime Statistics By Shirley Deeds Instructor Paul Cleverley University Of Phoenix March 21‚ 2011 This is a summary of statistics from the Juvenile Arrest 2001 bulletin report. In order to measure juvenile crimes there is the need to take statistics. According to (Snyder‚ 2003) “the arrest statistics report the number of arrests made by law enforcements in a particular year-not the number of individuals arrested‚ nor the number of crimes committed.” The FBI keeps an eye on four offenses

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    Sandhu 1  Wasim Sandhu  Mrs. Klein  English 10C  27 October 2014  Proper Justice For Juveniles  If a teenager commits a crime‚ it doesn’t make it any less a crime. Whether it is a  misdemeanor or felony‚ the age of the adolescent does not alter the level of offense. It does not‚  however‚ mean that the juvenile should be tried as an adult in court. Juveniles are not adults and  the seriousness of their crime cannot change that either. It is not right to give a teenager an adult  sentence for a 

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    or the Juvenile Justice System still associate themselves and their situation with a negative stigma. The frustration and fairness of the systematic process seems to be seen across the board even in those who have been able to positively move forward‚ given the interview information the multiple changes in school‚ placement and/or the number of professionals involved when these agencies are involved seems to be impactful no matter how severe the incident that brought them into the system is. The

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    not try juveniles in adult court for serious crimes. There is no doubt that there are some cases beyond hope‚ but children are more susceptible rehabilitation. My methods are trying to incorporate that as much as possible‚ especially for the younger children with brains that are still trying to develope. ¨Reforms efforts must place a greater focus on improving access to mental health services for all youth‚ better serving the needs of youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system‚ and creating

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    to serve five in the prison system and the remainder on probation. According to her version of the incident‚ her boyfriend was the troublemaker and main perpetrator of the crime. Even though he had a serious criminal history and had previously received a life sentence for murder‚ he only received a sentence of six years of which two years he would serve in prison. He was later paroled after only serving 13 months. (Georgia Commission on Gender Bias in the Judicial System‚ Atlanta‚ GA‚ 1991) In 2009

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    The juvenile justice system was created for a simple but specific reason‚ and that was to have a separate system for juveniles. Juveniles were treated as adults before the first juvenile court was established in the 1800’s. According to the book the juvenile system was created to focus on “rehabilitation of youthful offenders” (Lawrence & Hemmens‚ 2008). I think there are two systems for a reason‚ but they are different in a lot of ways. One the big difference is age‚ most juvenile are under the

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    Current Event Juvenile Justice Articles CJA/374 May 19‚ 2014 Samara Belgarde Juvenile Justice Articles Ventura county 14-year-old boy‚ Brandon McInerney was arrested and charged with the shooting death of a classmate Lawrence King. Lawrence was shot in the head at a close range. This crime was a premeditated hate crime‚ therefore‚ the District Attorney added special allegation of a hate crime against Brandon McInerney‚ and he was charged as an adult. Larry King classmates

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    The system of criminal procedure primarily utilized in the United States is the adversarial system. The term adversary is easily interpreted to mean opposition. Our present criminal procedure pits two sides against each other to present their respective evidence and issues surrounding a criminal act. This paper will address the adversarial system and its expressed use in criminal court proceedings in the United States. Among the questions this paper will take into consideration are: Is the adversarial

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