Juvies Movie Analysis

I believe the justice system is functioning in the sense of keeping those who are guilty of a crime punished and locked away, but then there are also some faults in the system. At times the justice system will choose a verdict based more on discretion rather than facts or choose to ignore the facts because it believes that there will be a better outcome. When the facts are ignored and the right punishable measurements aren’t practiced, crimes continue to rise and the justice system is believed to be untrustworthy. Juveniles usually rebel when they don’t receive a certain amount of attention in their homes or they suffer a traumatic experience within their immediate family members. Take for example Michael Propst who is only 12 years old and

Some juvenile delinquents are being treated like adults and being sent to adult prisons instead of juvenile prisons. In an article called “ADULT PRISONS: No Place for Kids,” by Steven J. Smith, Smith presents an argument against treating juveniles like adults. His argument states that minors shouldn’t be trialed and placed into adult prisons because instead of being rehabilitated, they typically come out worse because of the daily exposure to already hardened criminals. Smith provides reasons why juveniles are convicted as adults, the drawbacks of placing adolescents in prisons with adults, and an alternative punishment for juvenile criminals.

Criminal justice within the United States of America has in recent times been receiving heavy amounts of flack due to the unsettled case of whether or not it is just to sentence children convicted of major felonies to life without parole in state prisons. In the current state of criminal justice concerning minors, children as young as thirteen years of age are deemed eligible to be sentenced to life in prison without parole. According to The American Civil Liberties Union, an estimated 2,570 children between the ages of thirteen to seventeen are currently serving time in federal or state prisons with adults as a result of this policy. Much concern and weariness has arisen from this policy with many arguing that children of the ages of thirteen

The criminal justice system is locking our young men and young women under the age of sixteen in prison for the rest of their lives. These are children who are just becoming teenagers and still have the possibility of living production lives. These are children who make the wrong decision because of impulse or persuasion. Have we lost hope in our youth of tomorrow.? Do we just give up on our kids because they make a mistake? Does placing a child in an adult prison decrease crime among juveniles? How can a 13-year-old understand the Miranda rights? The system now focuses on the punishment of crime committed, when we need to focus on the child. We need to provide our youth offenders with options other than prison. Juveniles under the

Children have been dragged into a world infested with ravenous crime. Some children become tainted, making very serious and crude decisions along the way to adulthood. It is understandable that people would want these impulsive children to be put away from society for committing an adult crime and pay the time like an adult. With a whole life ahead of them we cannot, should not, let the future of a child be tossed into the adult criminal justice system and be forgotten.

In today’s society, the judicial system is meant to be just and fair to the people and criminals of this world. When the trial has concluded, the judge will have decided the verdict of the criminal. However, a juvenile criminal faces the possibility of transferring over to the adult judicial system. At first glance this appears to be fair, but in reality doing this is not logical, delivering justice, and can possibly damage a teenager’s life forever. No teenager should have to face the punishment of an adult because the juvenile will not have fully developed the brain at such early of an age, will have created a life lasting barrier from employment and may create even more future crimes, rather than stopping them.

Since the late 1980s, the U.S government begun imposing sentences to children without trial in the adults' jails. The practice was effective because it helped to reduce the rate of delinquency. In the early 2000s, the rate of homicides among the children aged 13-14 reduced. Nonetheless, though this law served to reduce the level of delinquency in the nation, it led to the intimidation of the adults. Sentencing the children in a similar prison with the adult is a form of disrespect to them. These individuals require privacy from the children. Hence, the government needs to establish different prisons for children and adults. In addition, sentencing juveniles in the adult’s prisons without parole is an injustice because children have reduced cognitive development (Thompson 1). Notably, cognitive development determines individual thinking capacity. Individuals with improved cognitive development, mostly adults, have the ability to make critical decisions in life. For example, concerning the committing of crimes, they have the capability of doing what is right. Hence, it is hard for them to be influenced by peer pressure. However, juveniles, most of them have reduced mental growth. They suffer from peer pressure. Hence, their tendency of committing crimes is high. Therefore, instead of sentencing them in the adult prisons without parole, the U.S government need to establish more rehabilitation centers for the

There are serious flaws with the way the US judicial system prosecutes juveniles. Although there is a juvenile court system in place to try youth offenders, the way it is being implemented is different between each state. In addition, some states even go further and try youth offenders, depending on the crime they committed, in an adult criminal court. In recent years, juvenile crimes face harsh punishments in the US, and the number of juvenile offenders sent to youth courts is decreasing, based on the data (“The Sentencing Project – Juvenile Justice,” 2015). This decline of cases being sent to the juvenile courts indicates that more cases of youth crime are being transferred to adult courts. Trying a child as an adult contradicts to UN’s rights of the child as listed on FACT SHEET: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (p.1 – 4), which shows that by transferring a child to an adult correction facility, we are denying that child of his/her rights.

In 2007, there were 60,500 youth incarcerated in America. Those numbers made America number one, with the highest incarcerated youth in the world, by five times the amount of the next country! (Mendell, page 1) Media creates a generalized focus on negative behavior, while we need to be encouraging youth’s positive behavior. We have to remember criminals start off as eager children that are ready to learn. They need to be taught positive behaviors. As we look into the court systems we see: so many judges trying to reach justice; we see so many police officers arresting citizens on the streets; and of course, we have the prosecuting attorneys cleaning up the streets, sending criminals to jail. We love the justice system keeping us safe, right? I am going to argue in this paper, first, how negatively effective the legal system is with their punishing methods. Second, I am going to argue that it starts with teaching children positive behaviors. This first starts out with rehabilitation before punishment. Finally, third, I will argue what we need to do to help this major problem. Constantly incarcerating and punishing juvenile offenders is counterproductive.

Are juveniles as under control today as they were in the past? Crime plays a major role in today’s society. The government follows the policy and has always followed the policy that no crime goes unpunished. The controversy that surrounds the United States courtrooms today is whether or not a minor needs to stand trial as an adult for committing a serious offense. These decisions made by the judge or jury in the preliminary hearing affect the rest of the suspects life. The opposing argument to the issue of juveniles being tried as adults remains that the minor is too young and immature to understand the consequences of what he or she did wrong. Juveniles need to be punished according to the

Adults are held accountable for their actions and expected to abide by the laws and if they do not there are consequences to follow. Some punishments can be as little as a monetary fine, or as detrimental as life imprisonment. Today, some children face these exact consequences depending on their actions. Certain children are held accountable for their actions and punished as adults in an adult courtroom depending on the offense and the jurisdiction. According to Campaign For Youth Justice (2012), “On any given day, approximately 2,700 young people are locked up in adult prisons” (p. 4). This is hard to understand, because the United States has a juvenile justice system that is centered on rehabilitation and reforming youth into law-abiding citizens. Campaign For Youth Justice (2012) also claimed, “On any given night in America, 10,000 children are held in adults jails and prisons” (p. 3). Currently, all states participate in serving justice to juveniles even though it is extremely difficult. Even though all states have a juvenile justice system in place, they are still able to send children to an adult courtroom to be charged and punished as an adult, otherwise known as the term “waived.” Children should not be held to the same standards as adults, there is no formal goal or point in punishing a child as an adult, and lastly, juvenile delinquents deserve the most effective treatment and rehabilitation measures available, which is unlikely in the extremely dangerous adult

History has shown that the criminal justice system needs to act differently when crimes come from juveniles, that putting someone 7 years old as an example or under the legal age in jail or giving them an adult sentence is really not the right thing for a child when more children turned juveniles tend to pick up criminal behaviors from those around them, friends and family. They just need to be helped in most cases, given support and treatment, not a harsh sentence. “Between the founding of the juvenile court in 1899 and the Kent v. United States case in 1966, the United States Supreme Court respected the intentions of juveniles court officials to seek the best interests of the child by allowing juvenile court judges and related personnel a great deal of discretion in attempting to achieve those objectives. In the mid-1960s, however, the Supreme Court was confronted with several cases that indicated that such a hands-off approach was no longer appropriate.” (book) Where in some cases it 's

As humans, we constantly make mistakes. We mess up, and many times, we learn to not make the same mistake twice. Children learn the most while growing up, observing the actions of the elders around them. There are many factors that come into play as a child develops in their community. For example, his or her home town, his or her parents’/guardians’ stance in the economy, or the school he or she attends. A child who grows up in an upper class community versus a child who grows up in a lower class community are bound to mature differently. The home environment greatly affects the way the child learns. To many people, the difference between right and wrong is very clear; however, to a child who has grown up in a mentally unhealthy environment, the difference may be blurry. Such as children who grow up in a violent setting are more likely to act in violent ways themselves. In the U.S., there are fourteen states who have no age minimum for prosecuting children as adults. Children as young as eight years old have been charged as adults for adult crimes. Approximately 3,000 children nationwide as young as thirteen years old have been sentenced life in prison without possibility of parole, leaving them to think about what

In today’s world the Law and Order system has a lot of difficult decisions to make. One of the most controversial decision the system has to deal with is should juvenile criminals be sentenced like adults or not. The percentage of juvenile criminals sentenced in the adult prisons like adults have been rapidly increasing in most part of the world today. The most conflicting questions raised today is why the children of today are committing such hideous crimes and how to bring them to justice and stop them. In the Law and Order system justice stands for “a being righteous; fairness” and also stated as “treat fitly; fairly”. But is our law and order system treating it fair enough? No it is not acting accordingly to its definition. It is not fair to sentence the juvenile criminals like adults. The most controversial question raised here is how young is called as juvenile criminals because all around the world it is different i.e in the United States 16 years and below who commit crimes is considered as juvenile criminals but in countries like India it is considered under age group 18 years and below. These kids who are too young to even watch a R rated movie without accompany or permitted to night clubs and alcohol are being sentenced like adults in adult prisons. This will have a huge negative impact on their career as they will be easily prone to negative elements like

Each year 250,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced, or incarcerated as adults across the United States of America. This sounds like something that would never happen in America where freedom, rights, and fairness are all valued so highly. In reality it is happening all the time, all across the country. As juveniles, children and teens are not thinking about the effects on the actions they execute in their childhood could eventually have on their adult life. To other people America may seem like a great place to be during a time of youth, but in reality America's children who have committed these minor and foolish crimes could be spending their life in prison. Being placed in unsafe facilities, that are essentially unsupervised or not at all during most times, with adult criminals who have committed serious, and sometimes dangerous offences. Juveniles should not be tried as adults because it violates the 8th amendment, a child's brain is to underdeveloped, and lastly, it empowers them to commit more crimes.