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    Juvenile Delinquent

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    PHILIPPINES PROVINCIAL ROADS MANAGEMENT FACILITY Misamis Occidental Managed by: ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT TRAINING COACHING IN MATERIAL TESTING August 7-8‚ 2012 Villa Amor August 9-10‚ 2012 DPWH MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY Oroquieta City Misamis Occidental ------------------------------------------------- Philippines Provincial Roads Management Facility (PRMF) -------------------------------------------------

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    Processing Juveniles “Contact with a police officer often is a young person’s introduction to the juvenile justice system.” (Bolden-Barrett‚ n.d.) Whenever this occurs‚ there are potentially two outcomes‚ the police officer either sends a summons to a juvenile justice system pertaining to the offense/s of the juvenile or they choose to throw out the case. “Law enforcement’s role with youthful offenders‚ boys and girls under 18‚ is particularly challenging because federal law protects young people

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    The juvenile justice system has been around since the late 19th century. Before this time if a juvenile committed a crime they would be tried in the same court system as an adult. Today‚ this would seem very strange or unfair to most people. But‚ before the end of the 19th century there were no court systems designed for juvenile offenders. When it came to prosecuting juveniles in the adult court system‚ it had to be determined whether or not a juvenile could be criminally responsible for their actions

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    Since its inception the juvenile justice system has been highly criticized and critiqued because it has taken many shifts in regards to the path of development and effective strategies to intervene in the lives of youthful offenders. Julian Mack (1909) states that the court was formed as a result of society’s general query about the states duty to protect‚ guide and care for those youthful offenders that reside within its borders that have committed law violations and unacceptable moral behavior

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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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    Juveniles & Death Penalty

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    JUVENILES AND THE DEATH PENALTY CRMJ400 – CRIMINOLOGY DEVRY UNIVERSITY SHALAUNDRA REED launy.reed@wellsfargo.com 704-968-6803 NOVEMBER 2010 JUVENILES AND THE DEATH PENALTY 1 March 1‚ 2005 was the day that the Supreme Court ended the death penalty for juveniles that committed vicious crimes such as murder prior to their 18th birthday. “"The age of 18 is the point where society draws the line for many purposes between childhood and adulthood. It is‚ we conclude‚ the age at which

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    60% of the children in juvenile are awaiting trial. I find it interesting that a child as young as 6 years old can go to juvenile and a child as young as 16 be tried as an adult in court and sent away to prison. Some of the crimes these young children commit should not be committed. Majority of the crimes happen because they rather are in juvenile detention centers rather than home. They find the detention centers more like comfort zones. What can we do as a community to stop these crimes from happening

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    I would like to work with Juvenile offenders‚ mainly because I feel that since they make up such a small group of the inmate population‚ 1200 offenders under the age of eighteen at the end of 2013 (p. 245‚ Seiter‚ 2017) that I would have a greater ability to utilize limited resource for a greater outcome. Juvenile offenders in adult incarceration are made up of individuals who have committed serious felony offenses under the age of eighteen (p. 244‚ Seiter‚ 2017). There are three approaches used

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    The myth of the juvenile superpredator is being readily touted in the media these days. Newspapers‚ public speakers‚ television talk shows‚ and news programs‚ have created the idea that society is‚ or soon will be‚ bombarded with a generation of violent‚ apathetic‚ and unremorseful adolescent delinquents (Kappeler‚ Blumberg‚ & Potter‚ 2000‚ p.175). Kappeler‚ Blumberg‚ and Potter refer to this topic in chapter nine‚ "Juvenile Superpredators‚" (Kappeler et al.‚ 2000‚ p175-195) of their text: The Mythology

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    understand the consequences of their actions‚ despite the fact that much research has concluded the opposite is true. James M. Sullivan (2014) author of From Monkey Bars to Behind Bars: Problems Associated with placing youth’s in Adult Prisons states‚ “Juveniles’ psychosocial immaturity ‚ including their tendency to focus on the short-term benefits of their choices‚ may reduce the likelihood that they will perceive the substantial

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