Mindblowing Young Adults

Most detention centers do not have an adequate environment for juveniles to change their ways and become useful members of society. Some juvenile offenders never leave a life of crime, even though they were reformed at a detention center. “Though the stated aim of secure juvenile facilities is reform, the data does not lie: detainees and minors committed to a detention center are more likely than non-detainees to be arrested as an adult” (“Make Sure You Know The Juvenile Detention Statistics and Trends”). As such, if juveniles getting released from detention centers are going to get arrested as an adult, then the centers are not doing their job of making them better members of society. Not only do juveniles get sent back, but if the offender

Rehabilitation for at risk teens has been an ongoing issue that runs deep in certain communities. When kids at young ages are exposed to stress and have to cope early on with dysfunction they are denied the opportunity to mature and conditioned to commit thinking errors that perpetuate a young offender into an adult offender. To find ways to break this cycle John Hubner accounts his time on the Giddings State School Capital Offenders Program and how a group of counselors are able to combine many strategies in rehabilitating young offenders who have committed serious crimes. Young people convicted of serious crimes are often transferred to adult prisons that institutionalize young people to prison life only increasing the likely hood of

In the article “Incarcerating Youth As Justice? An In-depth Examination Of Youth, Incarceration, And Restorative Justice,” Maynard, Robyn, has done many research on youth incarceration. She wants readers to know how incarceration affect youth’s mind, how should we help them, and what cause youth to be criminal. According to her research, there is an act call Youth Criminal Justice Act. She says that this act allows judges to release the name of youth offenders to the public in order to make them feel shame about what they do. This act causes the decline of youth incarceration. Although this act works efficiently, posting youth offenders ' names to the public cause negative effect on the youth. Rhonda Buckland, a counselor in a youth organization, says that this act makes youth offenders lose the ability to survive in the society. They become weaker than others and lose the ability to communicate with others. Maynard, Robyn also finds out the biggest factor that causes youth incarceration is racial profiling. Because of their races, police treat them differently, and that makes them feel helpless in the

Childhood is a time in which memories are created, adventures are explored and social awareness begins to develop. The events that occur during childhood are pivotal in the development of a healthy and substantial life. However, what if those experiences were taken from a child? What would the outcome be if a child could not experience what it is like to be young? Juvenile incarceration strips a person of their childhood and essentially takes away the experiences necessary for them to develop into healthy functioning adults. Even though juvenile incarceration is an effective method of punishment for those who have committed heinous crimes, the justice system should not convict children and adolescents as adults because of the child 's circumstances that lead to the crime as well as the disastrous effects it causes on the mental and emotional state of the child.

Did you know, that in the United States alone, Over 200,000 children are charged and imprisoned every year as adults? Early in the 20th century, most states established juvenile courts to rehabilitate and not just punish youthful offenders. The system was designed for children to have a second chance at their lives. “A separate juvenile-justice system, which sought to rehabilitate and not just punish children, was part of a movement by progressives to create a legally defined adolescence through the passage of child-labor and compulsory education laws and the creation of parks and open spaces.”(How to reduce crime Pg 1) Although the view on juveniles committing brutal crimes is nearly inconceivable, it is not a solution to give juveniles adult consequences because the effects of the adult system on juveniles are not effective.

Humans all make mistakes, it is a part of life that no one can avoid. However, young adults are more likely than the older generations to make bad decisions and take part in things that they may someday regret. Some people say that making mistakes is just a part of growing up. But what if just one wrong decision could mean the difference between a normal childhood and spending the rest of adolesence behind cold steel bars with cruel and vicious adult criminals? Unfortunately for a growing number of young teenagers, their reality is never being given a second chance to change or correct their mistakes. Why? Some may ask, because instead of attending school, learning the difference

Basically, it could mean let’s be careful.  Let’s not put people in a place they do not belong.  The question here would be what do we do with juveniles who have broken the law.  Should they be tried as adults and be put into adult institutions? There are many that believe they should, and many who believe it is not a good idea to do this.  This paper will present the research to assist in coming to a conclusion about the pros and cons of each side. Should you try a juvenile as an adult, people many say yes for there actions. But i think there is no way to compare an adult to a juvenile. They are young and not fully developed they do not think the way an adult would. Imprisoning juveniles may make the crime rate go down because more kids are away therefore unable to commit the crimes.  Does it really solve the problem?  Is it humane and fair?  Does it keep recidivism down. How can you treat  juveniles like adults when their brains are not fully developed. Research has shown that brains are not fully formed until mid twenties, and also varies by gender.  They should not be treated as an adult if they are unable to think or reason like an adult. Juveniles  are not competent or responsible

    Juvenile offenders are young people under the age of 18 who commit crimes. Sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole has both negative and positive effects. Children’s life should not be brushed off, but it is not right to throw children who don’t even understand the enormity of the crime that they have committed into the “slammer” for life. Juveniles must be held accountable for their crimes, but they must be treated differently than adults.  I believe these teens should not have a mandatory life sentencing do with the fact that teens’ brains are not fully developed, not giving them self control and making them immature. These teens are still learning to comprehend right from wrong. So why hold them

Should juvenile offenders be considered a source of fear and subjected to incarceration in adult prisons or a part of society worthy of being rehabilitated? Juvenile delinquents are feared by many today. They are revered as violent, superpredators, a generation lost without a cause and without ethics or morals. Some may say that it becomes an act in futility to try to find a solution to the increased crime rate when it comes to juvenile offenders. In an effort to find a solution, any solution, the criminal justice system has reformed to housing juveniles with adult, hardened criminals. This act produced juveniles who in turn become hardened criminals. In the writing, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Thomas Paus (2005) states:

By law adolescents are not able to vote, purchase tobacco or alcohol, join the armed forces, or sign a legal contract. Children are not permitted the same rights and responsibilities as adults because the law recognizes their inability to make adult decisions. The law acknowledges that children are unable to handle the consequences that come along with the rights that adults have. By allowing them to be charged as adults is holding them to a double standard. Telling them that they are not old enough to enjoy the same luxuries as adults, but they can experience the same punishment as adults if they commit a crime. The law acknowledged the inability of children to make decisions but still allows them to suffer the same consequences as adults. Research demonstrates that transferring children from juvenile court to adult court does not decrease recidivism, and in fact actually increases crime. Instead of the child learning their mistake they are more likely to repeat it. Juvenile detention centers have programs that help reconstruct young minds and help them realize where they went wrong. Prison does not offer this same opportunity. (Estudillo, Mary Onelia)

If I had answered this question 16 years ago straight out of college, my response would have been much different than my current answer. Back then, I believed whole-heartedly that criminals should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, with no mercy being shown. Fast-forward, almost two decades and my response today is the exact opposite. In order to reduce recidivism, thus reducing operating expenses in our prisons and jails, we must begin our rehabilitiative efforts with the very young offenders. No one is born with the sole intention of becoming an evil person.

There is a substantial amount of cases passed down and there are not enough employees to compensate the need. The fairness and rationality of the criminal justice system are often undermined by the fact that the system is heavily burdened in terms of sheer numbers. This enables a lot of cracks to where offenders can slip through the system. Furthermore, those who are incarcerated, awaiting an appeal, are often left in the system to find out they should and could have been let out earlier, say for instance, a witness comes forward to validate the offender’s

So the next obvious solution since incarceration and rehabilitation programs have little to no effect is preventing young people from starting committing serious offenses in the first place. Most criminals have the same backgrounds in common. The majority of offenders come from areas of high poverty, have little education, or have had unstable family lives with broken homes or drug use in the family. Boys whose fathers have served time in prison are very likely to end up in prison themselves when older (Howell 37). Over thirty percent of children in the US live in homes with only one parent (Betts 36). These children are at a much higher risk than children with both parents, and often have no male role model. The experts have been able to find the causes of most of the crime in our country, and have been able to pinpoint high risk youngsters. The next step is developing plans to reduce their risks and get them headed toward more positive activities in their lives. So far, the most successful ways of changing troubled youths’ lives have been through community action programs that give youngsters positive outlets for their emotions, and hobbies or activities for them to focus their time on which keep them away from harmful situations. A study by the Office of

According to the article “Adolescents in Grown-Up Jails”, arresting young people and locking them up with adults in prisons causes more damage to a child than actually helping them become functional citizens in the long run. The article goes on about how “confining young people to adult jails and prisons are both counterproductive and inhumane” (New York Times, 2012). The article states how children whom are locked away “are more likely to be raped, battered or driven to suicide than young people who are handled through the juvenile justice system” ( New York Times, 2012). It is important that juveniles are handled through the juvenile justice system because of its focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment. The juvenile justice system is better suited to lessen the likelihood of abuse, child recidivism and lessen the negative effects associated with being in jail or prison. When young people are locked away in solitary confinement they return home often traumatized and become incapable of becoming a functional citizen (New York Times, 2012). This causes the likelihood to commit or recommit violent crimes and end up back in jail or prison (Beauchamp, 2013). In this case, juveniles should not be a part of the adult criminal justice system, especially solitary confinement for a variety of reasons.

In the text, “Prison is Too Violent for Young Offenders”, written by Gary Scott, provides a discussion that the youth offenders doesn’t need to be incarnated to be rehabilitated. Prison yields negative environment that influences the youth offenders. The juveniles are more susceptible to influences, by the cause of, they’re undergoing developmental stage. Scott explains that the penitentiary develop the survival instinct of the youth to use weapon. If changing the behavior of the young offender is the goal, then incarceration is not the answer. Thus, in order to rehabilitate the juvenile, we should provide the youth an environment, letting them have educational insight about their behavior. With the stand, I agreed that providing youth home