President Mark Soler of the Washington, D.C., Youth Law Center points out that adolescents/children are required by law to be incarcerated separately from adults. However, the overwhelmed juvenile justice system lets the adult criminal justice system handle many youth offenders. This causes numerous negative effects for convicted juveniles. The law recognizes that adolescents/children are less equipped to make important decisions than adults are. Yet the law fails to distinguish between adolescents/children and adults when it comes to spending the rest of their lives in prison for crimes they have committed before their 18th birthday.
Simply placing juveniles in a prison-like setting and putting the facts of a substance dependence problem on the back burner is obviously not working. With a recidivism rate as high as 35%, jail time alone does not seem to be helping the juvenile drug offender. The program that I am proposing would give the individuals that were incarcerated a place to go after their school day, where constructive activities and counseling will take place, thus removing them from the violence and negativity of the streets, and replacing them with a healthy environment centered around keeping juveniles out of trouble and subsequently, jail. Substance use inevitably leads to reoffending (Chassin 3), and allowing drug offenders who have already been through the system to receive treatment and counseling for their possible drug addiction may decrease the number of individuals who will be brought back into the justice
The assessment chosen: The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY). This assessment is used to evaluate the risk of violence for children between the ages of 12 to 18 years old. Explain the relevance of assessing for conduct disorder features/traits in juvenile forensic populations, as well as the reasons for such an assessment. In a juvenile correctional program, this assessment would be relevant. According to Vincent et al.
She continues on to say that it is proven that teens are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure. She also says that teen that are tried as adults and then released commit more crimes than those that are tried in juvenile courts. She also recalls a story of which a teen was sent to a prison for being tried as an adult and her family was ruined. She was mentally unstable and her family was falling apart after jail time. Most teens when they grow up, are easily influenced.
In this paper, I will illustrate the ways in which the Books Not Bars (BNB) campaign launched by the Ella Baker Center addresses juvenile incarceration, a key issue in the problem space of urban poverty. In the United States, incarceration rates have had an exponential growth since the 1980s (see Graph 1). This incredible growth of incarceration is mind-boggling, once one considers “we account for 25 percent of all prisoners but only 5 percent of the global population.” (3) Steven Hawkins, “Education vs Incarceration,” The American Prospect, December 6, 2010 http://prospect.org/article/education-vs-incarceration. This disturbing trend has led
According to the CDC (2010), sexual activity between men which constitutes the majority of prison rape, accounts for more than 50% of all new HIV infections in the United States. Rates of HIV and confirmed AIDS cases are more than five times higher among those incarcerated in prisons than in the general population of the United States. Another consequence that is long-term stemming effect of juvenile child abuse in prisons is the emotional and psychological damage that follows them into adulthood. According to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (2009), sexual abuse can lead to major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Juveniles who have been sexually abused may face problems with anger, impulse control, flashbacks, dissociative episodes, hopelessness, despair, and persistent distrust and withdrawal.
the Judge then sets forth an ultimatum; Stand in the town center and endure a public whipping, or report to jail for the next year. My hypothesis to this idea would be that most if not all criminals would choose to suffer a beating over being locked away in a jail cell. Therefore I believe more petty crimes would be committed, due to a lack of fear. A few days of pain can be far less detrimental than a long prison sentence. A reputable assumption Jacoby made was; Prison becomes a kind of
Assess the Usefulness of Risk Factors in Managing Youth Offenders. This essay will be attempting to explore the usefulness of risk factors, when it comes to managing young offenders. It will begin by defining the key terms ‘risk factors’ and ‘youth offenders’ before outlining some of the most important risk factors commonly connected with young offenders. It will then attempt to examine the ways in which these particular risk factors are used to identify and then manage those young people who commit crime. The essay will be looking at these risk factors and their effects with particular reference to the Youth Justice System, in addition to other agencies.
“As envisioned by the founders of the juvenile justice system, delinquent youth should receive sanctions that both hold them accountable and rehabilitate them” (Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011). Many aspects of the juvenile justice system work together to make sure that everything runs smoothly. Partnerships formed by law professionals, families, communities, and juvenile courts are very important in helping juvenile offenders turn their lives around. Also, I believe that the role community involvement, law enforcement, courts, and corrections play in the Juvenile justice system is extremely essential in maintaining a successful deterrence rate. Juvenile corrections often faces challenges due to funding, state budgets, and the commitment
According to California penal code 314 (Indecent exposure) you may be subject to registering as a California sex offender if convicted (Shouse, 2012). Indecent exposure can be something as simple as going to the restroom on the side of the road in a public place or being over 18 and having wiling intercourse with a minor. For example, Kevin Teichen is a known sex offender who has served time in prison for having sex with two underage 16 year olds (zorn, 2011). Although Kevin has the social skills as a ten year old the two girls were underage so he received a five-year prison sentence. Kevin is not expected to be put on parole when he is eligible because he has no place to go but his parents.