The youths that are being tried in the adult courts should be offered to better themselves as for they are not fully developed at the ages under eighteen. Punishing a teen by taking away their rights for life is not helping the betterment of society. Another person in prison means more local taxes for another set of clothing, more food, and occasionally, more space to be built. A psychologist could benefit from these children who caused trouble, especially if the trouble was un intentional. Juveniles have greater possibility than adults to make a change in their lives with the right help with counseling and rehabilitation.
Should Youthful Offenders Be Tried As Adults? Ervin Frankli March 28, 2012 SWK 501: Policy II Alabama A&M University History of Juvenile Justice System: “Many people believe juvenile courts were invented to "go easy" on young criminals. The actual reasons are more complicated. The 19th Century reformers who advocated the establishment of juvenile courts were just as interested in crime control as they were in social work. Admittedly, some reformers were motivated by a desire to save growing numbers of poor and homeless children from the streets of America’s cities.
This could have caused embitterment by the experience of confinement. > Juveniles would have better chances of rehabilitations if they were diverted enough into institutions with common aged inmates. What would happen if there were no distinction between prisons for juveniles and adults? Truthfully it pains me to think about the distinction. Some juvenile inmates come from broken homes, divorced families, deadbeat parents and are just trying to survive.
The new generation of reformers went beyond rejecting the paternalistic characterization of young offenders; some advocates for tough policies seemed to view juveniles involved in crime as more culpable and dangerous than adult criminals. The rehabilitative model of juvenile justice seemingly thrived during the first half of the twentieth century, but it began to unravel during the 1960s. Youth advocates challenged the constitutionality of informal delinquency proceedings, and in 1967, the Supreme Court agreed holding in In re Gault, that youths in juvenile court have a right to an attorney and other protections that criminal defendant’s
Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis CJA 374 September 1, 2014 Cory Kelly Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis The juvenile court and adult court are very similar in the United States Court system. The biggest difference between the juvenile court and the adult court is the juvenile court handles offenders under the age of 18, and the adult court handles offenders 18 and older. There are certain situations where a juvenile is handled in an adult court. These case would be determined by the age of the offender, severity of the crime, and the amount of incidences. This paper will give an overview of the juvenile justice system.
During this era members in society began to recognize the developmental difference between the juvenile delinquent and the adult criminal offender. The new focus was on rehabilitating the juvenile and repairing the family in order to assist them in becoming more productive members of society. The juvenile justice system was developed based on a rehabilitative model that would focus on the mitigating factors surrounding the juvenile’s delinquency and ensure the juvenile is provided with the necessary programs to successfully recover their lives. The juvenile justice system would take into account childhood abuse and the child family situation and develop programs designed to change their perception and behavior and assist in restoring the family. While this was the focus of the juvenile justice system
Is Life Without Parole a Fair Sentence for all Juveniles? I believe this would be a good research question. There are many factors that would lead into a juvenile having such a harsh punishment. The research may show reasons for both sides and questions that come to my mind are what types of crimes are they committing to receive this sentencing? Do the courts take into effect the juvenile’s history and home life?
Attorney General Eric Holder says that prisons should only be to punish, deter and rehabilitate, not for the pedi crimes that people are in prison for now. Attorney General Eric Holder then talks about school to prison pipe line. He claims that it starts with reducing the crime seen by young people.
Specifically it: Requires more juvenile offenders to be try in adult court Requires that certain juvenile offenders be held in local or state correctional facilities Changes the types of probation available for juvenile felons Reduces confidentiality protections for juvenile offenders Increases penalties for gang-related crimes and require convicted gang members to register with local law enforcement agencies Increases criminal penalties for certain serious and violent offenses (www.lao.ca.gov) Rehabilitation The juvenile criminal justice system for rehabilitation is a basic system that helps with education, schooling, and a job training; basically giving the juveniles a second chance on life. The Juvenile Justice System is intended to have goals for their public safety as well treatment in California. When it comes to California State Juvenile Justice System are programs that deal with community supervision who handles the juveniles, detention, and incarceration. The goals in the juvenile justice system includes that schooling have social workers that help the youth out on life and organizations that each individual participates in. For a minor who is a juvenile victim is arrested than law enforcement
Although the current juvenile justice system in many states now closely resembles the adult criminal justice system; they remain two separate systems of justice founded on different philosophies. Generally speaking, while the adult criminal justice system emphasizes the punishment of criminals; the juvenile justice system is based on the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. In the early twentieth century the progressives began to perceive children in a new manner. Industrialization and modernization led to the view that children were “corruptible innocents whose upbringing required greater structure than had previously been regarded as prerequisite to adulthood.” Social scientists reported that because children are not fully developed they are not accountable for their actions in the same way as adults are accountable. Criminal behavior by children resulted from external forces such as impoverished living conditions or parental neglect.