Juvenile Court Law

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).

In the 1990s, violent juvenile crime rates had reached record high levels throughout the United States. During these years, many Americans considered the criminal justice system too easy on violent juvenile offenders and demanded reform. Many states, including Florida began to focus efforts on juvenile crime. “Florida’s criminal sentencing laws and punishment policies from 1980 to 2000 reflected an ongoing, focused effort to deter serious crimes” (Taylor). Crimes were given stricter sentencing guidelines. Serious offenses carried mandatory minimum sentences. “When it comes to kids and crime, Florida is known and the toughest state in the nation” (Clary). More juveniles are prosecuted as adults than in all other states combined. Juveniles were at the hands of these harsher adult sentences.

Juvenile courts have a wide range of sentencing options (usually called "disposition orders") that they can impose on juveniles or youth offenders who are found to be "delinquent" (that is, finding that the minor violated a criminal law). Typically, disposition options fall into two camps: incarceration and non-incarceration. One non-incarceration option in particular -- probation -- forms the backbone of the juvenile justice system. Read on to learn about the different kinds of sentencing options used in juvenile court, the ins and outs of probation, and whether a disposition order can be appealed or changed. (For more information on juvenile court cases, see Nolo's article Juvenile Court: An Overview.)

On 05/23/2018 at approximately 2226 hours, I, Deputy A. Martinez Vazquez (117015) responded to 211 Mission Rd., Oviedo, Seminole County, Fl. In reference to a disturbance inside of the residence. While in route to the residence, I was notified that the disturbance turned physical against a mother and daughter. Before I arrived to the residence I was notified that the 15 year old female juvenile was inside of her room.

In the United States, juveniles have always known to cause trouble in the community. In recent times, many individuals have the perception that juvenile crimes are on the rise and that these offenders are getting younger. Charging juveniles as adult has always been a debate, because of their thinking process and protecting their rights. There are many cases that regard juveniles that have changed the policies of this nation. Also for those juveniles that are convicted as adults, there are many challenges that correctional officials have when housing them. Waivering juveniles to adult court has many factors to it and whether or not juveniles age thirteen and fourteen should be

Today, we live in a society faced with many problems, including crime and the fear that it creates. In the modern era, juveniles have become a part of society to be feared, not rehabilitated. The basis of the early juvenile justice system was to rehabilitate and create safe havens for wayward youth. This is not the current philosophy, although the U.S. is one of the few remaining countries to execute juveniles. Presently, our nation is under a presidential administration that strongly advocates the death penalty, including the execution of juveniles. The media and supporters of capital punishment warn of the "superpredator," the juvenile with no fear, remorse, or conscience. Opponents of this view

The boy was charged after his mother brought him to state police barracks the day of the murder, saying her son told her "he got mad, lost his temper and grabbed a cane and put it around Novak's throat," police told The Associated Press.

There is a purpose for the court, and different types of courts. For example, there is a purpose, and a scope with in the juvenile court (Cox, Allen, Hanser, & Conrad, 2014). This just means that each state will customize what their needs are for juvenile court (Cox et al, 2014). This can be a good or bad thing within the system. Furthermore, there has to be a purpose for the court. This is short means the cases they will be hearing. This could mean abuse, delinquency, or family issues (Cox et al, 2014).

The government, instead of ensuring proper implementation of the rehabilitation and correction of the children in conflict with the law is shredding its responsibility through this retrograde law, holding the children accountable for the failures of our juvenile correctional institutions. This would never succeed as a deterrent and would only serve to ostracize them. This amendment to the preexisting law, not only lacks a rational social objective but also constitutional validity. The selective and unequal treatment of children between the age group of 16-18 years clearly violates the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 14 extending equal protection of law and equality before the law and Article 15 (3) of the Constitution allowing

Some supported this idea for the sake of the children’s wellbeing, others just simply feared immigrant street youths. As a result of this, Illinois was the first state to have established a separate court system for juveniles in 1899. In these new courts, specially trained judges had many choices in how to deal with the youthful offenders. Judges acted more like the juveniles’ parents rather than giving out harsh punishments dominated for the next century. During this period, the law defined any person less than sixteen years of age a juvenile. Rather than prosecuting the juveniles for a crime, the new juvenile courts placed them in reform schools or with foster parents. The juveniles would remain in the courts supervision until age twenty-one. Thanks to the help of reformers, juvenile court judges now have many sentencing choices such as probation, issuing fines, sending offenders to juvenile correction institutions or foster homes, referrals to day treatment or social skills classes, mental health programs, or community service. A judge often orders a combination of these treatments. Repeat offenders can be declared delinquents and removed from their homes and placed in foster care or a state facility, but, “The most harsh treatment a judge can order is commitment to a secure reform facility.” (Hanes and Hanes 351). A secure reform facility is defined as a place where juveniles are locked up for the duration of his or her sentence. “These facilities are often called youth development centers.” (351). Though rehabilitation is the goal of the juvenile justice, these centers resemble prisons and serve to protect the community from the delinquents. The length of time juveniles serve in these secure facilities can vary. “A teen sentenced in Juvenile Court may be locked up for a crime but only for

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.

The juvenile justice system is in place to ensure the protection of minors who are 18 years of age and younger. The juvenile justice system is where minors go to court who have committed criminal acts. A juvenile code is sanctioned through juvenile law. This code is overseen by the state law. The juvenile justice system uses rehabilitation as a goal in order to help these juveniles instead of simply punishing them for their crimes ("juvenile justice: an overview," 2015).

There are three different ways where juvenile courts can be transferred to criminal courts. Judicial wavier, legislative wavier, prosecutor wavier, and rarely demand wavier are the three different ways. Judicial court is where the judge makes a decision. Legislative wavier is juveniles at specific ages, charged with specific crimes, are automatically sent to criminal court. If a sixteen year old killed someone, his case could be tried in a criminal court. Prosecutor wavier is where prosecutors are given the choice of filing the case in juvenile or adult court. The decision would come based on the interactions of both parties and the seriousness of the crime. The extremely rare transfer request is the demand wavier. The demand wavier is where the defense lawyer will ask that a juvenile’s case be transferred to criminal court. The reason demand wavier is rare, is because the defense usually is looking for the easiest punishment. By asking to go to a criminal court, the defendant could be receiving a harsher punishment. Psychologists have an important role when deciding about transferring from juvenile court to adult court. The three psychological constructs are amenability to treatment in the juvenile system, risk of dangerousness, and the juvenile’s own sophistication-maturity.

Should a twelve year old life should be ruin by the serious crime they did, yes they should because they took someone’s life and they should do a lot jail time, it don’t matter because they committed a serious crime and they murdered someone for no reason or accident either way that person that they killed is not coming back and they didn’t deserve to die or anything. I don’t agree with the supreme court they should have young kids do the time at a young age if there twelve years old or younger. Every year the juvenile court in the US handle the estimate of 1.7 million cases of what the younger kids did. The trends in juvenile court cases did not parallel the decline in arrests of persons younger than eighteen. I feel like when the

The juvenile justice system is always changing and developing new ideas. The first example of a change or development can be the status offense reform. The basis of this are they are trying to keep the non-delinquent kids form the juvenile justice system. Some examples of status offenses are skipping school, or running away – offenses that are not illegal for adults. These offenses can lead to possibly detention, which might do very little to rehabilitate or change the issues that juvenile has. How this can all change is to bring these troubled kids to community based services to make them learn that it is possible to change and become a better person. Some other examples of changes or developments in our juvenile justice system (that I won’t go into detail about) are the quality of aftercare and how the system is trying to reduce racial-ethnic discrepancies and making it fairer for everyone (models for change).