In the adult justice system the outcome of being found guilty of a serious crime is always a form of punishment, but the juvenile justice system will typically retain the option of a rehabilitative sentence (Steinberg, 2001). Rehabilitation will lower the risk of juvenile offenders reentering the juvenile or adult justice system. The results will be less money being spent in the justice system and a safer community for everyone. The ultimate goal of the justice system is to protect society from criminal’s rehabilitating these criminals is the most important way to provide that service to society. During the nineteenth century, the treatment of juveniles in the United States started to change.
They are suggesting that the state government should look into the possibility of using community-based alternative to detention which is not only more cost-effective but could also be a more effective solution to juvenile crimes. But this could only work if you have those teens who want the help. So that’s why they provide them with the feel like you at home setting. The state feel if we can provide them with the essential of doing the right thing, they will less likely to commit a crime. But being touch on crime is always a good approach, that’s what are need to stay on track.
Delinquency Deterrence Response The threat of punishment does deter juvenile delinquency by general deterrence which means that crime control policies that depend on the fear of criminal penalties, such as long prison sentences for violent crimes. The aim is to convince law violators that the consequence outweighs the benefits of the crime or criminal activity (Wadsworth, 2005) If more severe, certain, and swift the punishment is the guiding principle of deterrence theory then the effects of the deterrence is greater. Since the increase in teenage violence, gang activity, and drug abuse was a result of not punishing adolescents severely as adults were so that juvenile justice authorities would not interfere with the parens patriae philosophy, which means A doctrine that grants the inherent power and authority of the state to protect persons who are legally unable to act on their own behalf (West,2005), prompted a reevaluation of deterrence strategies in the 1990’s shifting an emphasis on treatment to an emphasis on public safety in some juvenile courts (Wadsworth, 2005). This would allow officers to enter schools undercover to identify and arrest juvenile drug dealers and to allow judges to be more open with charging juveniles as adults leading to doubling the total of juveniles under the age of eighteen from thirty-four hundred in 1985 to seventy-four hundred in 1997. This and the legislators passing more restrictive juvenile codes seems to have an overall beneficial effect on the delinquency rate and that is that it has declined.
Just because a child commit’s the crime, doesn’t mean that the crime wasn’t committed. The victim (if there was one) still suffered. Violent crime should receive the harshest of punishments and it’s said that the children should be equivalent to that. The reason juveniles should be tried as adults is because it will not only help them understand the event of their action but also discourage the juvenile from any crimes in the future. It will automatically decrease crime rates in today’s society and hopefully make it a better place.
CJS/240 July 16, 2012 Asharani Moore Typically the majority of juveniles are unaware of the laws that follow when juveniles commit offenses. However the threat punishment does deter juvenile delinquency because most youths do not want to be punished for their actions. Enforcing harsher punishments upon juveniles will not prevent or decrease juveniles from further behavior. Instead increasing the availability of police and probation officers could provide juveniles with one-one-one assistance to focus more on rehabilitation rather than punishment. The general ideal of the deterrence method suggest that one punishment is enough to deter other people if the situation is take care of quickly enough.
Drug intervention programs and rehabilitation centers help to keep people from using and aid in helping addicts “kick the habit”. The idea behind this concept is that if less people were using then there would be less repeat offenders caught for possession and drug
Juvenile Rights CRJ 301 Juveniles like adults have a process to go through before they can be charged. Not all states are the same when it comes to processing, but they all have the same outcome. Juveniles like adults need to be punished for their actions regardless of whether it is a mild offense or a serious offense. During the processing there are some organizations that require certain procedure to be done, while in other states it is left up to the courts or the police officer. During an arrest of a juvenile the officer must first decided whether the officer or the general public is in harm’s way.
Critically evaluate how the legal system responds to the issue of juvenile justice. Refer to strategies for crime prevention, issues surrounding arrest and detention, diversionary schemes and court proceedings for young people. As an age group characteristically prone to immaturity, susceptibility to peer pressure, and attention seeking behavior, it is no surprise that 15-19 year olds commit 3 times more crime than any other age group. As a result, the controversial question remains unanswered; How is our legal system equipped to handle juvenile justice? Juvenile justice can be defined as the sector of the law applicable to persons not of legal age.
Strain theory is as sociologic theory that tries to explain why people commit crimes. It explains the likely hood of delinquency in two parts one is the addition of strain in a persons life and the second portion is the persons coping mechanisms to combat the strain that they experience. Another large part of strain theory explains how people measure the positive and negative things that will happen whenever they commit any crime or delinquent act. We know that juveniles are involved in more crime than adults and we can also use strain theory to help explain why this is happening. Being a juvenile comes with many different strains that most adults do not have to face as well as having far less consequence in many cases is they do something wrong or make a mistake.
However, when a child engages in criminal activity the degree of the sentence received should coincide with offense .The central emphasis of this content is to illustrate the effects of retribution by holding the juvenile justice system responsible for precisely applying the appropriate sanctions toward deserving individuals. All through history, mischievous children who have gotten in trouble have been confronted with extreme reprimands. Over the last twenty years juvenile violent crime has escalated almost twice as quickly as that of adults. The rate at which juveniles were arrested for violent crimes rose 79 percent between 1978 and 1993, almost three times the increase over that time period for adults. The legal term juvenile delinquent was generated so that young offenders could steer clear of the humiliation of being labeled in officially authorized court documents as criminals.