In this article, we shall evaluate the effectiveness of the measures that have been taken to control the children and adolescents who have a high risk of future offending. According to researchers, there has been a lot of arrests of young children and adolescents. Law enforcement in the United States for example arrested 2.4 million children aged 18 years and below. This was a 18% of all arrests made, 33% of all property crimes and 17% of the criminal activities that were committed that year (Snyder, 1999). More significant is that cases of cases of youthful offenders are on the rise on among the young female compared to their male counterparts and this situation is raising an alarm (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999).
Many children with disabilities usually need more structured and clearly amorphous surroundings, also behaviorally, than a general education classroom can offer. ADHD’s basic signs for children with an ADHD are lack of concentration, hyperactivity, and impulsivity causes child children to cope with day to day school challenges (Zentall, 1993). Children with ADHD have trouble sustaining attention to stay on task; this causes them to miss important details on their assignments, distraction during class activities and difficulty organizing assignments. According to doctor (Russell Barkley), he said that “children with ADD/ADHD have the tendency to fall behind about 30 percent, when it comes to their developmental performance.” In fact, the NIH
Bandura’s experiment on children being exposed to aggressive behaviour and therefore imitating this behaviour is somehow evidence to show that on some occasions, behaviour can be learnt. There are many different ways people can learn criminal behaviours from other people, for example having a sibling that always steals, or having a aggressive father who uses physical harm in order to control people. Being exposed to behaviour like this in everyday life and when people you love or may respect, like your family are portraying this behaviour, then this may be seen as the norm for people and they may think it is okay to imitate this behaviour. There have been many different studies and theories into how upbringing can influence people into turning to crime. For example Farrington conducted an experiment into how disrupted families can affect how likely someone is to turn to crime, and they found that most participants defined as ‘chronic offenders’ shared the same or similar characteristics, for example convicted parents, delinquent siblings and young parents.
In class we discussed the Family Atmosphere and delinquency, and this really meets with most of the juveniles cases of crime that we are having. The aspects that could lead youths to commit such crimes could be based for example on maternal affection, if the parents always fitting, if the mother sees thing and she is not strong enough to stop it, or most of the cases parents are criminals themselves and involved with drug problem. This is a good reason why there are so many cases of crimes that juveniles are involved. Also how adolescent learn aggression and violence at home, or the environment they are in. This could involve how much violence do they witness, and for example how violence is portrait.
Provide an analysis of the dilemmas faced by the criminal justice system in balancing the rights of victims with those of offenders. The continuing dilemma of balancing the rights of victims against those of offenders is vast. There are several considerations that reveal issues faced by the criminal justice system in this balancing act. Victim impact statements are an important document in the criminal justice system as they allow for victims of crime to tell their story within court (Commissioner for Victim’s Rights 2015). Erez, Roeger & Morgan (1994) discuss the importance of victim input inside the justice system.
There was an inability to deal with many different stimuli at once. They had a low tolerance for frustration and had difficulty structuring information. They were easily overwhelmed by new information (Rist, 1990). The same symptoms were repeatedly seen by the researchers who have followed crack-exposed infants from birth. The New York Times recently reported: The most severely affected children suffer from seizures, cerebral palsy, or mental retardation.
This period is when one can either make it out to become a great adult in the future or become a total mess all together. This is as a result of the kind of groups that people tend to associate themselves with. Peer pressure is very common among the youth and therefore parents and guardians are required to guide their kids so as not to fall in the wrong group. However, there are children who are not lucky to have stable homes and therefore they get involved in antisocial activities that eventually lead to criminal acts. Some of the children end up being arrested and being sentenced to juvenile prisons.
Child abuse crosses a wide line or racial, economic, and cultural situations. Most abuse occurs inside the walls, and in most cases are hidden from the outside world. People go by the saying, “Don’t trust a book by its cover.”, and in these situations, it uses the saying in a great use. Lastly, people believe that, “Abused children always grow up to be abusers.” (Segal, Smith, Siasan) In some cases, it may be true and the cycle has not been broken, but most abused children grow up to have a reason and motivation to break the cycle. Most survivors of abuse actually grow up to help make a difference, break the cycle of abuse, and become excellent parents.
Depending on the type and severity of the offense committed, it is possible for persons under 18 to be charged and tried as adults. CAUSES 1] Family – Almost all research workers have accepted that families of delinquents are characterized by discords, desertions and divorces. Such families have been pointed out as one of the main causes of delinquency. 2] Peer Group – To those in sore need of a substitute for family love and group-belongingness, the peer group or 0the gang presents itself as a kind of close knit unit that will solve the purpose. 3] Neighborhood – The immediate environments of a child also affect the trend he will adopt in connection with his personality.
Recently, the students and administration have had an issue involving cheating in the classroom, because of the high bars in today’s testing. II. Body Paragraph 1 c. A society is controlled by the education that it offers, and sometimes to form a high society; teachers, students, and their administrations will occasionally cheat. d. Detectives in New York established that 52 educators at 32 schools were cheating (Koch). e. For example, educators can be known to boost the students test scores in order to keep their job or get an increase in pay (Koch).