Getting The Juvenile-Justice System To Grow Up By Ken Stier

In Outgrowing Juvenile Justice, Michael Jonas (2001) raises several important issues concerning juvenile justice policies and practices. In discussing Jamal Vick, a range of youth crime issues surfaces, including:

The author explores different means to achieve justice in this novel. While on the surface, this story is about the particular case of Cole Matthews and his own path to redemption, the author constantly makes comments on the current justice system's inadequacies and how alternative forms of justice could serve the criminals and society as a whole much better. Garvey, who works in the juvenile justice system, frequently comments how people go to prison for years, but

Should everyone be judged on the same basis, regardless of age? Do minors who have committed serious crimes be tried just like their adult counterparts? In some parts of the United States, they are, but it is not as worthwhile as some believe. Using the articles “Experts Link Teen Brains’ Immaturity, Juvenile Crime” by Malcolm Ritter and “Juvenile Justice” by Carl Stoffers, and the podcast “Do Juvenile Killers Deserve Life Behind Bars?” by Nina Totenberg, judging teens as adults is not beneficial. Juveniles are still developing both mentally and physically, deserve a chance of redemption, and while it may not always work, juveniles should at least have an opportunity to change in rehabilitation.

Juvenile justice has became a huge concern of the law enforcement. It is tragic that people of young ages take on unlawful actions that can consider their future for the rest of their life. “The juvenile justice system is a network of agencies that deal with juveniles whose conduct has come in conflict with the law. These agencies include police, prosecutor, detention, court, probation, and the Department of Juvenile Corrections.” When minors commit a categorized crime, such as homicide or rape, they are put into a position where they are tried as an adult. If a juvenile commits an unlawful crime, they should be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Being sentenced to life in prison without parole will help abolish the future acts of the criminal that can hurt someone else and helps them realize and understand the horrible crime they have done.

According to statistics, juveniles being tried as adults is not a new phenomenon. Since the beginning of the juvenile court, juveniles have been eligible to be tried as adults for the commission of capital crimes. However, starting in the 1960s and 1970s and mounting in the 1980s and 1990s, there has been an extensive upsurge in the number of juveniles tried as adults as well as a rise in research on the topic. This increase has coincided with the proliferation of laws that cover and dictate

Every juvenile who commits a severe crime should be tried as an adult. Juveniles should understand the differences in between both good and bad. Most kids that are 15 and older are the ones committing the worse crimes, by that age they should understand the differences in between both good and bad. Every person in the world should be able to think before they do, being able to think before you do will help you understand what you're doing and help you understand the difference in between both the good and the bad. The parents of the juveniles should also understand that some crimes are severe and have severe punishments. Juveniles need to know that

“I Believe In Justice, and I Believe In People Being Held Responsible For Their Actions”-Bruce Willis. The quote means no matter what their age is they are responsible for their crimes big or small. With that being said juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes because many understand what they are doing even though they are “just kids”. Also because there's no such things as adult crimes just adult criminals. Some violent crimes are assault, murder, sexual assault, etc. Many juveniles have committed these crimes.

Juvenile should not be convicted as adults for violent crimes because juveniles lose brain cells and connections that are responsible for controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control. taking a child and putting them in a prison or jail can mess with their mental state and they will get so accustomed to that sort of environment that they will feel insecure and end up committing another crime just to get back to the comforts of a prison cell because they feel like an outcast. Some teens suffer from mental instability and because of that instability that teenager will not understand that they are committing a crime.

Teens should be spent to adult jail for the crime they committed! In the late 1980s juveniles have been committing crimes during the period of this time, many of them were getting in trouble more often, crimes were getting more violent by this time. On June 25, 2012 The Supreme Court justices who agrued to abolish mandatory sentences to life in prison for juveniles who commit murder or any crimes reflecting the will of Americans society should be punished as an adult . Justice Alito noted that , “Even a 17 ½ -year-old who set off a bomb in a crowded mall or guns down a dozen students and teacher is ‘child’ and must be given a chance to persuade a judge to permit his release into society…” In other words I agree that teens should be sentenced to life in prison, if I did the same crime I should be punished the same way as an adult who has committed the same crime because during this age I know what I am doing wrong and right. I believe that teen should be sentenced to life in prison because the victim's family reactions, rehabilitation, they should understand the consequences of their actions, mental health issues, and heinous crimes.

When teens are tried they are either tried as juvenile or adults. If they are tried as minors then they go to a juvenile facility to get the help they need and go to school. Some teenagers are tried as adults and go directly to adult prisons just as any other person over eighteen would, however kids are not subject to the death penalty. Some kids may commit these crimes because they have undeveloped brains or mental issues ( Thompson 89). People are released from prison after short amounts of time because they committed a terrible crime as a minor instead of an adult. Most of these former criminals will repeat their actions putting our society at risk of assault, rape, or even murder. When someone commits a crime, and the crime is truly immoral and should deserve to pay the consequences no matter what their age is. Teens should be held accountable for their actions and tried as adults for heinous crimes they commit.

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).

Juvenile Justice Do Juveniles deserve life in prison? Juveniles don’t deserve life in prison because their brains aren't fully developed and if they go to life in prison and they come out they will not come out the same as when they went in. I believe that juveniles should not be sent to life in prison because they couldn't handle the hard and cruel life of prison. If juveniles do something that is serious like murder then yeah they should be sent to life in prison. Some teenagers aren't mature like others they take a little longer to develop.

In conclusion I feel that by not trying juveniles as adults it is a better outcome for the child and society. We are also giving the juvenile a second chance at the future that everyone

The topic of juveniles justice and whether or not to charge teen criminals in adult courts and sentence them to audit prisons is one issue that is always up for debate. Media plays a huge role on juvenile crimes they show the worst about it and not any positive which makes many people feel that there's a huge problem going on with the juvenile justice. Minors should not be charged as adults or be sentenced to adult prisons without knowing the background or the circumstances.Not every kid that commits a crime will grow up to be a criminal, brain studies show that teens are unable to make decisions efficiently which causes them to make the wrong decision, children from juvenile court to adult court actually increases crime, kids take risks in adult prisons and bring justice for extreme crimes.

A criteria that has to be taken in consideration when dealing with this heated debate, is the age of the criminal. The age of a teen criminal could be overseen in various cases due to the person’s horrific crime, but it demonstrates the immaturity and the lack of judgement of the teenage brain. A child of the age of 13 is very different from a man of the age of 25. In fact, according to Shelat, Amit, MD, “The rational part of a teen's brain isn't fully developed and won't be until age 25 or so”. The lack of development of the brain does not mitigate the criminals actions, but poses as a possible reason for their actions. There has been various research studies that have resulted in many startling and unreal finds. For example Paul Thompson from the