Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

This paper will look at the importance of Preventing Juvenile Delinquency and what different ideas, concepts and methods are available to those adolescents that are either at-risk already or those that can be in the future. Early prevention is the best method of slowing down the statistics of crimes among adolescents, by keeping them off of the streets and out of the justice system by providing the means to teach them to be productive rather than destructive.

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) is requesting funds to provide juveniles a second chance through a community supervision reform program. The Department’s goal for requesting these funds is to reduce the number of juveniles currently on probation. As of 2013, there were over 383,600 juveniles on probation. This program would provide grants by implementing community supervision strategies that reduces recidivism, and improves the outcome for juveniles that are currently under community supervision. Funding for this program will increase

Throughout the semester, we have been reading and exploring the internet on juvenile delinquents. We as a class have had many good questions to answer about the different ways juveniles are treated, and what the correct or incorrect treatment is for juveniles. We have written many papers and had many discussion on historical milestones, landmark cases, adult courts, juvenile courts, probation and parole, detention centers and juvenile training programs. This semester has really changed the way that I look at juvenile delinquents.

Unfortunately, juvenile delinquency continued to increase, spiking in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While news headlines touted the juvenile delinquency epidemic, the public became fascinated with the rise of the “juvenile super-predator.” In 1992, frustrated lawmakers, who were determined to end the rise in juvenile delinquency, amended the JJDPA to include USC §5667f. This subsection provided funding for state-operated

In Spring 2009, three offenders, all in grade eleven , set two houses is Sherwood park on fire. The youth criminal justice Act (YCJA) provided opportunities for them to reintegrate and rehabilitate, instead of throwing them in jail. YCJA covers kids between the ages twelve to seventeen years old. It 's purpose is to handle youth offenders more differently than adults because of their undeveloped minds. The YCJA was released back in 2003. By protecting the rights and providing Youth Canadians the support they need, the YCJA benefits the offenders in a positive way. The act gentrust the youth a second chance to make sure they don 't reoffend by rehabilitating and reintegrating them. Also youth over the age 14 years can get an adult sentence if necessary. Therefore, the YCJA is an effective law because it supports everyone; youth will acquire the help they need and Public Safety is insured.

A juvenile or “youthful inmate” as defined by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is any person under the age of eighteen who is under adult-court supervision and incarcerated or detained in a prison or jail. While PREA defines a juvenile as under the age of eighteen the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) allows the states to set their own definition of a juvenile (Lahey). This discrepancy in the definition of a juvenile has caused problems and slow progress with states coming towards compliance with PREA. States, such as North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Missouri, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas and Louisiana have set the upper limit for a juvenile at sixteen. Texas, recently has agreed to comply with the terms of PREA. Louisiana automatically prosecutes seventeen year olds as adults, even for minor offenses (Neustrom). Sentencing juveniles to adult prison is risking the juvenile’s safety by putting them in a situation where they are vulnerable and more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted, commit suicide and it also causes an increase in the recidivism.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, established in 1974 and most recently reauthorized in 2002, created a partnership between the federal government and the states to protect youth in the juvenile and criminal justice system, address delinquent behavior, and improve community safety by preventing juvenile crime and delinquency. The JJDPA is responsible for the operation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention, provides a juvenile justice planning and advisory system in each state, and provides federal funding for delinquency prevention and improvements in state and local juvenile justice programs. Under the JJDPA there are four major streams of funding for the Federal-State partnership: (JJDPA, 2007)

What is YCJA? The YCJA stands for (Youth Criminal Justice Act) which is a law for young people who commit crime. The YCJA helps young offenders get to rehabilitate to a normal life in a society. The YCJA act will prevent young offenders having a criminal record if you are between 12-17 if older you a charged as an adult. In the YCJA you can be charged as an adult due to a violent crime when you are between 14-17. The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) since then replaced Young Offenders Act (YOA) as of April 1, 2003 young offenders have been helped by rehabilitating and reintegrating . The YCJA is known for all the great laws but there is room for improvement. Youth can be charged as an adult from 14. I propose a change in the age range to

Having the YCJA has helped significantly as youth and adults are faced with completely different charges, with different outcomes for the charges. Simply because a youth could not handle and be able to cope with the same consequences an adult offender is given. Youth are young and they should and can be taught wrong and right, that is one of the main purposes of the YCJA. Different aspects are put into perspective to determine the correct punishment. The usage of going to courts has decreased by 26% (between 2002-03 and 2009-10) since the YCJA had been put in place.

Juvenile Delinquency is the participation of illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit. A delinquent is a minor who commits a crime or a status offense. A status offense is conduct that is illegal only because the child is under age i.e. smoking cigarettes (Senna 10, 20). The cases of Eric Smith, Lionel Tate, and an unidentified NJ child are similar only because, they are guilty of killing another child, but the Criminal Justice System treated and punished them very differently. In August 1993 in Savona, New York 13 year old Eric Smith killed 4 year old Derrick Robie. Smith lured Robie into the woods and strangled, beat with large rocks, and sodomized Robie. Smith was questioned by police and kept changing some

Imagine you're a parent, and your child has just gotten into trouble with the law. They are taken into custody, and the whole time, you are worried sick because you know that the current youth crime system can mean that your child could share a cell with a rapist, or murder. Before the Youth Criminal Justice Act was enacted, the youth of Canada would be sent to court or jail over minor things, such as petty theft or not showing up to court. They could be put into a cell where they share a room with a rapist or murderer, scared to death of what could happen to them. The Youth Criminal Justice act, enacted in 2003, ensured that troubled teens aged 12 to 17 could instead of being thrown in jail where they may even be further influenced by more

I am responsible for reviewing and interpreting quasi-experimental outcome evaluation results to assess the effectiveness of state funded programs administered through the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA). I use Excel to recalculate the results for program participants and reference groups to determine the accuracy of information provided in the counties’ progress reports. After validating program results, the data is exported from Access and then import into SPSS. Using SPSS, new variables are created and some variables for data analysis. In addition to cleaning and formatting data, paired samples T-tests are ran to compare measures by group differences across 56 counties.

Poor or not, no one is above the law. Giving children the image that they can get whatever they want, harm whomever, do anything, will psychologically plant a new seed of mischief. Children can commit crime and not be imprisoned if we do not repeal the Juvenile Delinquent Act. In fact, juvenile crimes rose in 2008 despite the implementation of the Act in 2006. This shows that the most effective way to combat crime is to promise just punishment. It may seem harsh but crimes should be dealt with justice. Should the offense of a child and an adult be of the same degree, their age should not matter and justice should be served for the security of the nation. Any crime poses a threat to society and the offenders, whatever their age, should experience the true consequences of their actions.

Within this paper the writer will be discuss the public policy on Juvenile Justice Reform. Within the paper the writer will describe the issue, tell if the policy a regulatory or legislative-initiated policy, and who initiated the issue or policy. Also the writer will discuss is there a constitutional issue, and how will the issue or policy affect the community, the accused, and the victims and a conclusion at the end of the paper.

It is a common believe that adolescents require a special system thru which be processed because they are “youth who are in a transitional stage of development…young offenders that are neither innocent children nor mature adults…” (Nelson, 2012). Because juveniles are in a process of constant development sociologically, psychologically and physiologically, the juvenile court system focuses on alternative sentences and the creation of programs that will offer them rehabilitation instead of incarceration. However, in cases of extraordinary circumstances, the juvenile system shifts from looking at rehabilitation as a first choice to accountability and punishment (Read, n.d). All levels of society are collectively involved in delinquency