Juvenile Delinquents Case Study

Should convicted youth gang members be treated like other juvenile delinquents, including status offenders and why do you feel the way you do?

Petitioner was arrested when he was 16, he got charges for breaking and entering, robbery and rape. Petitioner, was subject to jurisdiction issues from the District of Columbia Juvenile Court, after full investigation, the court would waive jurisdiction over him and send him to trial for the charges. Petitioner's Lawyers filed a motion in the Juvenile Court for a hearing a waiver on charges, and to gain access to the Juvenile Court's Social Service file which was gathered on petitioner during his probation for his previous offense. The Juvenile Court would not rule on these motions. They entered an order wanting to waive jurisdiction, but after the full investigation was done. Petitioner was indicted in the District Court. He moved to dismiss the charges, but the Court overruled the motion, and petitioner was tried. He was convicted on six counts of breaking and entering, and robbery, but acquitted on two counts of rape by reason of insanity. petitioner raised, among other things, the validity of the Juvenile Court's waiver of jurisdiction.. (united, n.d.)

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.

The Juvenile System has been molded by various court cases over the years. Chapter two covers six of those landmark cases.

Wilma Mankiller, my fellow Cherokee, believed that "individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward." However, this isn't limited to the Cherokees. All tribal people have faced challenges and have continued to thrive. Therefore, juveniles delinquents have the ability to improve their lives. Some viable tribal and community-based alternatives to detention for juveniles who have committed non-violent offenses include community service, giving or attending lectures about the dangers of criminal behavior, and participating in support groups. These alternatives are successful in rehabilitation and prevention of crime.

INDIANAPOLIS - Detectives have arrested a 15-year-old juvenile suspect alleged to have robbed 7 area Metro and Boost Mobile cell phone stores. The suspect faces nearly 30 criminal charges, to include Criminal Confinement, Pointing a Firearm, and Robbery.

When a juvenile faces the court system in the United States it is much different than when an adult faces the court system. The main concern for a juvenile is not to get the punishment they may deserve but rather the court system focuses on treatment. They do this by using rehabilitation as a major tool, not to try and get them healthy per say, but rather to create better choices for the juvenile in the future. This includes the court system looking into the juvenile’s past history along with a psychological approach in order to meet his or her needs. The juvenile then faces a hearing which involves looking into not only the juvenile’s history, but also social needs in order to better accommodate them for their “healing” process. On the other

The American Juvenile justice system is where youth, who are caught in a criminal act, are convicted of their crimes. The juvenile justice system also intervenes using the police, court and correctional facility for delinquent behavior. The juvenile justice system was not always around. In 1824 The House of Refuge was opened in New York. This was the first attempt to separate children and adults. Before this, children as young as 7 who were convicted of crimes were put in prison with adults. The Juvenile Justice system was established in 1899 in the United States. The first case was heard in Illinois. The Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899 created the first juvenile court system with authority and jurisdiction over abused, neglected, delinquent,

The problem with having a not reliable home is that it generates huge numbers of runaways that are easy targets for pimps; such runners engage themselves in sex activities in exchange for food, shelter or even are exploited by known company. In the United States, such victims are citizens, non-citizens, and most of the cases those children are labeled as prostitutes or juvenile delinquents, and the big problem is that they are treated as criminals rather than being identified and treated as trafficking victims. Thus, these victims should be placed on environments where they can receive protective services rather than being treated as criminals and delinquents. I believe that the law should protect those children in an effective way and reinforce

Juvenile Justice has been a work in progress from the beginning of the program because of the evolving mentality of the generations. The purpose of Juvenile Justice was to correct the behavior of the juvenile delinquents and rehabilitation through a probationary period monitored by an individual who paid for bail and periodically reported behavior changes to courts. (Mulligan 2009) We do justice to the youth offenders by understanding the history of Juvenile Justice restorative programs, the alternatives to incarceration, and how to help them amend their actions and behavior.

In this scenario John has been going around robbing people of the community as well as a few stores. He has been arrested several times for burglary, shop-lifting and carjacking. Although, he has been to prison on some of these crimes he has been let out on probation twice. Now rather than give John another opportunity to hurt more people as well as the community as a whole he should not be able to get out on probation or parole but serve out his entire sentence. Therefore, he has become a major problem to the community and should not be considered for any form of community correction program.

The public has limited access to juvenile records in the state of Tennessee to begin with. However, a person meeting the qualifications can petition the court to expunge their juvenile records completely. The requirements to apply for the expungement are as follows: the subject must be 18 years of age, at least one year has passed since their most recent juvenile adjudication, they have not been convicted of a criminal offense following their transfer from juvenile court, they have never been convicted of a sexual offense, and the court finds that they have had good behavior in the year preceding their expungement request and that expunging their record is in the best interest of both them and the community they reside in (Altshuler). In

This assignment will illustrate that by understanding the fundamentals of combatting juvenile delinquency and applying the theories to command practice will enhance the overall knowledge of the material. This document will demonstrate the juvenile delinquency reduction efforts and programs currently in operation in the Tampa area community. In addition, I will propose ways to improve the Tampa area community’s juvenile delinquency prevention efforts. Next, this paper will attempt to apply the main sociological theories that underlie these interventions that shape the community’s public policy for delinquency prevention. Finally, this paper will identify an appropriate strategy geared toward preventing delinquency that in consistent with the Behavioral theory.

The juvenile delinquent or (JD) films, as which they have came to be better known as, started as a movie cycle and was very characteristic of hollywood in its prime. Looking back at another cycle which can be seen as similar and a precursor, both in the approach of the overall approach and the themes of the films would be the gangster films of the 1930s. These movies saw successful breakthrough in the box office and from this box office success saw a increase and spawn in countless

A traumatic childhood may predispose a child to violence against themselves or against others, in adolescence or adulthood. This information is and has been off the records, but so far no known relationship between the magnitude of traumatic experiences and different forms of violence at puberty. A study published in Pediatrics, which involved 136,549 U.S. students between 12 and 17 has been commissioned to evaluate this relationship. The researchers sought to determine six adverse experiences for which they had passed the boys in childhood and physical and sexual abuse, witnessing abuse or problems at home by alcohol or drugs taken by a relative. Then he saw the violent behavior at puberty: crime, harassment, bullying, dating violence,