Analysis Of Juvenile Justice By Cole Matthews

In our reading (Juvenile Justice in America) it talks about a 1992 survey of law enforcement department’s product by G. David Curry and colleagues’ it says “the seventy-nine largest U.S. cities, 91 percent of respondents reported the presence of gang problems. These researchers estimated that there were 4,881 gangs with 249,324 gang members” and it also states “that juveniles made up 90 percent of the gang membership.” There have been seven stages identified for these emergent gangs with stage one being implementation. That is were gang leaders go to a new city to recruit juveniles to sell drug for money. They go into the low-income minority neighborhood where they promise their recruits protection and part of the profits from the drug sells.

Placing a juvenile in a detention center early in the court process increases the risk that youths will be found to be delinquent and damage their prospects for future success. A majority of the youths that are placed in these facilities pose little or no threat to the public and essentially do not need to be there. This portion of the juvenile court process is detrimental to the future and mental aspects of a youth’s life. We desperately need to change the way that we handle the juvenile court system because we are only reinforcing the delinquent behavior that these youths have been exposed to. We need to focus on the rehabilitation and prevention efforts for these youths not the punishment aspect and until then (insert a better ending).

Over 1/3 of the 11,000 index crime arrests were juveniles under the age of 16.

The Juvenile Justice system, since its conception over a century ago, has been one at conflict with itself. Originally conceived as a fatherly entity intervening into the lives of the troubled urban youths, it has since been transformed into a rigid and adversarial arena restrained by the demands of personal liberty and due process. The nature of a juvenile's experience within the juvenile justice system has come almost full circle from being treated as an adult, then as an unaccountable child, now almost as an adult once more.

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America’s juvenile justice system has been around for ages and has had problems since its creation. The courts have failed to devise a way to help juveniles and keep them from even entering the justice system. More often than not, juveniles are forgotten and never dealt with until they reach the point where they are either going to be placed within the system or receive some sort of diversion or alternative. This is where the problem exists. There needs to be more communication between the different levels of the juvenile justice system. Particularly between the officers that may arrest these juveniles, the probation officers that deal with them, and of course the judge in the court system. The juvenile court is supposed to have provided due process protections along with care, treatment, and rehabilitation for juveniles while protecting society. Yet, there is still considerable doubt as to whether the juvenile justice network can meet these goals (Cox, Allen & Hanser, 2013).

Daniel first became involved in the justice system at age 16. His legal history includes five intake contacts and two violations of parole. Daniel has had an intake contact for a felony offense. None of the intake contacts were for felony offenses against another person. He has no history of escape. He has had three juvenile detention confinements and no other court ordered placements.

Over the past 50 years the Juvenile Justice system has seen many changes to their philosophy and how they handle juvenile matter. Supreme Court cases like In re Gualt, In re Winship, New Jersey v. TLO, Roper v. Simmon have helped shaped the juvenile justice system. Juvenile courts can no longer ignore the constitutional rights of juveniles. Tennessee has 98 juvenile courts, 109 juvenile court judges and 45 magistrates. In 1982, The Juvenile Court Restructure Act amended Tennessee Code Annotated §§37-1-201 through 37-1-214. The purpose of this act is to provide adequate juvenile court services in every county in Tennessee. The Tennessee Code Annotated §37-1-203 states, “general sessions courts shall exercise juvenile court jurisdiction except

There are many known, crooked, twisted ways of our juvenile system.So many young children getting their lives destroyed and ruined all because of our juvenile system.This Problem became noticed in 1960 when a 15 year old boy got arrested and had a life changing, ruining, experience all because of a prank phone call. In 1967 the supreme court finally tried to resolve this problem and bring justice to all children, but fixing it wasn't going to be as easy as giving childrens, teens, rights to a lawyer, and no double jeopardy. In the late 90s and early 2000s over 200,000 children were tried as adults, children getting the death penalty and getting life in jail without even chance of parole.There was even a

1. Chapter 13 is a historical look at the concept of juvenile justice. What did you learn from reading this chapter?

When thinking of reforming the juvenile justice system one has to think; what can we do to make this better for everyone involve? There are some programs that can be implemented when trying to make a change in the juvenile system. The main thing is getting parents or the guardian more involved in the child’s whereabouts. Secondly the community where the youth will have a place to go and have something more constructive to do to keep them out of trouble. Law enforcement can get involved in giving ride along and having visits to the local jails or prisons from the youth to talk to some of the inmates. Crime in life isn’t racist at all it has a no age limit, no certain gender and no social status for most of those whom decide to partake in a criminal activity. From the beginning juveniles have been an issue with law enforcement, the question has always arisen of whom will take control without cruel and unusual punishment and assist with the rehabilitation and prevention future crime actions.

Juvenile justice is compared in chapter thirteen. In the nineteenth century, there was an increased number of children at risk and chronic poverty. This overall was a general concern because there was an increase of people in the “dangerous classes”. There was a child saving movement, in which the poor children represented a threat to the moral fabric of society. The nineteenth century was a time where they had a house of refuge. In this house of refuge, they had a society for the prevention of pauperism and they privately managed, but publicly funded. The development in the nineteenth century for juveniles was reform schools, work, basic education and they were segregated. Juvenile justice in the nineteenth century had a society for the prevention of cruelty to children in New York. In this society they were granted the authority to remove children from where ever they were being mistreated and they assisted the courts in making placement decisions. When it came to reforming the system back then the process was slow. From the beginning children were denied due process because the juvenile system is made for rehabilitation and not for punishment. The 1960’s was a time where the reform system was changed and that’s when family courts and U.S. Supreme Court decisions came into play.

The act of justice is to provide both fairness and equality for both the victim and offender. With the increase of juvenile offenders, the YOA was enhanced therefore forming the YCJA, which would ultimately focus on ending the cycle of recidivism among young offenders, and as a result of the YCJA being introduced, 42% of overall crime by youths had been declined from the year 2000 to 2014. In doing this the YCJA’s main goals were and still are to recuperate the youthful offenders by focusing on rehabilitation and reintegration, and looking at the underlying cause of the crime. Although not acknowledging the suffering and constant fear that the victim and community go through, as the result of the crime.

The juvenile justice system is similar to the criminal justice system. This system is where juveniles are processed, and may be arrested after referrals for juvenile delinquency. Juvenile justice is very different in every state and can be very similar as well because every system has limited jurisdiction and that most focus on the offenders and not their offenses. Therefore, there are 51 juvenile justice systems in the United States. The United States has the juvenile justice system because children are very different than adults – in that they can be better receptive for change and also being easier to rehabilitate. Moreover, the main goal of the juvenile justice system is rehabilitation (Juvenile Law Center). The juvenile justice system is made up of police, courts, corrections, probation and parole services, as well as community-based programs to name a few (book).

Justice is what allows society to function by creating a suitable punishment for a crime. This punishment will stop others from pursuing said crime while hopefully making everyone happy with the punishment. The US has always had issues with how it runs its Justice Department and usually handles tough cases through the court system. At the top of this system is the Supreme Court who in the simplest terms has the final say on what's fair based on the Constitution. One of these tricky cases involve juveniles, whom are of a select age of teenagers that are considered adults when it comes to high-profile crimes, which do not reflect the ideas of equality. The majority of the Supreme Court aligns with the rationalization that juveniles are not adults and because of this the justice system provided an unfair and, quite a possibly, a cruel source of punishment towards juveniles.