Separation Of Juveniles

I personally believe that Juvenile Court should be separated from adults. An adult is set in his or her ways by time they reach their late thirties early forties. A child on the other hand is not set in his or her ways. A child actually has the chance to be rehabilitated, which can help change his or her ways, and therefore should be treated opposed to being punished. In 1905, Commonwealth v. Fisher came to the conclusion that  court is specifically “is not for the punishment of offenders but for the salvation of children…” This suggests that children have the opportunity to seek help and learn from the mistakes they make as a child. The purpose of juvenile court is to determine what services the state should have intervened and if the child

The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago,Illinois is the largest juvenile detention center in the United States. The Cook County Juvenile Detention center has been housing and rehabilitating juvenile offenders since the very early 1900s. Reports showed that even in 1912, that rehabilitation had been working and recidivism was decreasing. The report of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center Chief Probation Officer in 1912, shows that in the course of successive years, beginning with 1912, there had been a continuous decrease in the number of children sent to institutions. For instance, in 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916, the number of children sent to institutions have been as follows respectively: 1422, 1200, 1154, 1044 and 975.

By reading this book, I learned a lot about teenagers’ critical situations at juvenile hall. This book gave me a greater insight and deeper understanding of what their lives are like and the challenges they face in this place. I also learned that the legal system is not doing a great deal to help these young kids mend their lives. They are not being offered counseling or therapy which could help facilitate a great deal of things for them such as, getting a better orientation of a path for them to follow, dealing with the excessive amount of stress they face in a healthy way

The Juvenile Justice system, since its conception over a century ago, has been one at conflict with itself. Originally conceived as a fatherly entity intervening into the lives of the troubled urban youths, it has since been transformed into a rigid and adversarial arena restrained by the demands of personal liberty and due process. The nature of a juvenile's experience within the juvenile justice system has come almost full circle from being treated as an adult, then as an unaccountable child, now almost as an adult once more.

The overall sense that the reader gets from this book is that growing caseloads, inadequate facilities, and arbitrary “get-tough” laws are rendering the juvenile justice system in California and elsewhere in America ultimately ineffective. Redeemable kids are sent to adult prisons to “criminal college” to become more hardened and violent instead of being rehabilitated. Extremely violent kids are kept within the juvenile system to be released at twenty-five, based solely on whether they are over or under the age of sixteen. Abandoned or neglected kids are sent to languish within a broken foster care system, to be raised in group homes with deplorable

Regardless of expansive help inside the scholastic, lawful, and social-work callings, the perfect regularly neglected to satisfy its guarantee. After some time, the adolescent equity framework in numerous states returned to the corrective approach it was intended to supplant. In spite of the fact that they were frequently called "preparing schools," the foundations were adolescent penitentiaries. What's more, the introduce that the court, by definition, was acting "to the greatest advantage of the kid" left youthful guilty parties without the rights ensured to grown-up criminal litigants. There were rehashed records of damaging practices. The length of confinement was regularly irrelevant to the seriousness of the offense. Adolescent hearings were generally mystery, with no composed transcripts and no privilege to advance. Minors were not given lawful guidance, there were no shields against self-implication, and guilty

To answer the research question whether waiver laws are consistent with the purpose of having a separate juvenile justice system, the research suggests that the answer is no. Primarily, they are not consistent with the, “best interest of the child” mantra that shaped the juvenile justice system (Flesch, 2004). It seems that prosecutorial and executive waiver laws are not consistent with the Supreme Courts decision to safe guard the child and society by ensuring that each child has a waiver hearing that accurately accesses the child’s ability to be rehabilitated by the juvenile justice system (McMillin, 2014). Instead, the waiver has been used as a vacuum to suck up non violent and violent offenders that would be better suited to stay in the

Solitary confinement can worsen both short and long term psychological and physical problems or make it more likely that such problems will develop. The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch created a report that incorporated the testimony of some juvenile inmates. Many interviews described how their placement in solitary confinement exacerbated the stresses of being in jail or prison. Many spoke of harming themselves with staples or razors, having hallucinations, losing touch with reality, and having thoughts of or attempting suicide all this while having very limited access to health care.

After reading and doing some research of solitary on juveniles here in the United States is a violation of human rights. I understand that there will be behavioral to address when it comes to violations and gangs violence among juveniles. Is there another way to address this behavioral instead of sending them to the solitary? Sending juveniles to the solitary can bring lots of issues and become higher problems. Having juveniles in the solitary are violating their human rights. They are not able to function well when they are in hold for more than 20 hours. Juveniles that are in the solitary are suffering from psychological damage that can caused depression, panic attacks, obsessive thinking, anxiety, traumatizing and suicide thoughts.

Institutions were established for only the youths of American cities. During this period was the first time that a the environment the child grew up in was considered an influence to their behavior. Due to this development those children were taken out of their “bad” environment and placed in reform schools. During the Refuge Period the first Juvenile court was established, the first probation system that applied to juveniles was created, and it was the first time that juveniles had separate trials from adults.

I think it was handled incorrectly she is only a juvenile. Charging her with murder and convicted her to life without parole would be cruel because she is only 16 years old. The brains of 16 years old are not fully matured and they are not capable of making good decisions. That’s why they have parents to guide them until they are mature. I don’t think she intended to kill the child but I guess it happened and she probably felt all alone with nowhere to turn for help. I would educate all the kids through some type of program or tied it in with physical education in the middle school. I am glad to see that in North Carolina there is a places people can go if they no longer want their kid(s). I think we can educate the juveniles using various

“I used to believe are our future but now I realize that this, sadly isn’t the reality. Through laws that treat kids like adults, the government is throwing away the future of children in this country.” (D. Lee) An estimated 200,000 juveniles are tried as adults. The term juvenile refers to any young person under the age of 18. For most states in the United States, the age of majority is 18. While there are many things that juveniles are unable to do until they reach the age of 18, being charged as an adult for a crime is not amongst those things in some states. Juveniles are not allowed to vote, drink alcohol, or sign a legal contract, yet they can be charged and treated like adults when it comes to them being

This paper will discuss the history of the juvenile justice system and how it has come to be what it is today. When a juvenile offender commits a crime and is sentenced to jail or reform school, the offender goes to a separate jail or reforming place than an adult. It hasn’t always been this way. Until the early 1800’s juveniles were tried just like everyone else. Today, that is not the case. This paper will explain the reforms that have taken place within the criminal justice system that developed the juvenile justice system.

Juvenile delinquency has been a problem in the United States ever since it has been able to be documented. From 100 years ago to now, the process of juvenile delinquency has changed dramatically; from the way juveniles are tried, to the way that they are released back into society, so that they do not return back to the justice system (Scott and Steinberg, 2008). Saying this, juveniles tend to

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