The Importance Of Juvenile Offenders In Prison

There have been many studies conducted that examine ways in which the juvenile justice system responds to female offenders. Historically juvenile female offenders have been treated under status offense jurisdiction (Zahn et al., 2010, p. 10). United States Courts would exercise the principle of “parens patriae” to place the female in detention as a form of punishment for misbehavior (Sherman, 2012, pp. 1589-1590). This principle also remains prevalent as it pertains to how the juvenile justice system currently responds to juvenile female offenders.

Imagine witnessing your parents’ brutal murder right in front of you. Your father is forced to his knees and shoot in the back of his head, execution-style. Your mother’s teeth lie on the floor from the bullet propelled through the side of her head. The fiend proceeds to move forward and shoot her brains out. For Carroll, this was a reality. Robert Acuna barbarically murdered James and Joyce Carroll. What do you think this savage deserves? In America, adolescents can be tried as adults at ages as young as 10. They can be sent to an adult prison with adult cellmates, trapped in an adult environment that they just are not ready for. The prison environment is very influential and may change adolescents for the worse. Exposure to adult criminals

In America we sometimes house juveniles and adults in the same prison system. In the state of Wisconsin in 2014, we have incarcerated 121 minors into the adult system. While incarcerating these juveniles in the prison system some may wonder how does it affect a juvenile, Also what problems do they face while in prison and lastly, how has their life change for better or worse after they are released back into society.

Should Juveniles be waived to adult court Philosophy 14 Nov 98 Should juveniles be waived to adult court. There has been tension between teens (pre-teens) and adults for thousands of years, and the question how to deal with the youth of a culture, in a punishment sense, has been with us for just as long. Socrates, for example, stated that "children show little respect for there elders." Since Socrates time largely due to the spread of guns and drugs, younger and younger children are committing violent crimes. Children that have special needs or have committed a criminal act have been subject to state protection since, 1838. The first juvenile court was established in Chicago in 1890. The assumption, that was made

Since they are minors they should be in juvenile prisons not in adult prisons, because they do not get the help they need. For example, Mrs. Jones decided not to take Roger to the authorities for trying to steal her purse instead she teaches him right from wrong. Mrs. Jones taught Roger to do the right thing because she recognizes that Roger is just a young boy, and that he is still learning his right from wrongs. If Mrs. Jones took Roger to jail, there would be no one to teach him right from wrong, if Mrs. Jones took Roger to jail he would have never gotten a second chance to do something right. In addition, the article “Teens and decision making: what brain science reveals” states that the brain of a minor do not fully

the safety of the community by performing safe and secure facilities which keeps the prisoners and offenders under control. In prison there are wide facilities are available for offenders and prisoners such as medical treatment, educational and vocational programs. These programs are there to help the offenders become better citizens. Corrections are providing the services to each state now for centuries. Every state has its own history of corrections, and every state is responsible for their department’s action and workers behavior. There are so many important rolls, regulation and lessons still need to be learned. Correction is not only for held the people behind the bars; it gives prisoners to reform and rearrange their lives in order.

I have the confidence of my ideals that juveniles can have needing of becoming disciplined on their heinous violent crime, accordingly, if they show the capability to become an adult criminal which is possible. Moreover, I have long accepted that there are juveniles who deserved to the adult sentences due to this circumstance. Not only that, but there was an increase in violent crimes done by youths at a certain time. There are other reasons such as it being efficient to have a second choice for there to be an adult prison when there are kids beyond repair and/or help. Consequently, this generation is quite sophisticated than the previous generations.

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives how do they feel in juvenile prison? Do they even know that if their life is bad, what is prisons life like? Do they know what are the consequence for breaking prisons rule? Why is respect so important within the prison environment?

The Supreme Court, on June 25, 2012, has banned the sentencing of life in prison without parole for a juvenile who have committed murder. According to the Supreme Court, the act of sentencing life in prison without parole violates the eighth amendment which bans cruel and unusual punishment. The ban only applies to people of under the age of eighteen years old. The purpose is to prevent children under eighteen to be tried as an adult in court. Not all justices agree with the ban, four of them disapproves of it, claiming it is “the will of American society that heinous crimes committed by juveniles should always be punished with a sentence of life in prison.” I personally agree with the ban but I do agree with the four justices on that American

JUVENILE TRANSFER TO ADULT COURTS A Look at the Prototypes for Dangerousness, Sophistication-Maturity, and Amenability to Treatment Through A Legal Lens http://psycnet.apa.org.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/journals/law/8/4/373.html

Transfers decision were based on the severity of the offense. Also, transfers decision were made by invidually judge who weighed out if this young offender will endanger the public safety. Also, in some states, it was left to the prosecutors or by the legislators who decided whether to try a juvenile as adult. Another method to transfer juveniles to adult court was the judicial waiver, which is the most transfer method. About twenty-five percent of juvenile offenders are prosecuted in adult court. Juveniles tried as adult can be safety to the community, because juveniles prosecuted as adult had a higher rates of rearrests for serious felony such as robbery or assault. The negative consequences of youths being tried as an adult, they are expose

Juveniles deserve to be in prison, but they do not deserve to be in prison for life. They should not be given a lengthy sentence, because they are not very developed. Those juveniles should be given another chance at another point. Those who give those juveniles a sentence of life in prison is like treating them as an adult, in which they should not be treated as an adult. I believe that juveniles should not be given a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

    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

“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

In Miller v. Alabama (2012), the United States Supreme Court determined that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional to juvenile offenders. This decision is agreeable upon because adolescents do not receive the opportunity to reform themselves. As the Court suggests, life in prison violates the Eighth Amendment, which accounts for a ban on cruel and unusual punishment. However, juveniles still must be held accountable for their actions and should be sentenced to a fair verdict according to their crime, whether they are an adult or not.