Juveniles under the legal age of eighteen years old are subjected to special juvenile laws when being accused of or arrested for a crime. A child that is taken into custody for a supposed crime must be taken to a juvenile detention center and may be released to guardians or parents upon a promise to reappear in court and an authorization of release made by a judge. Family plays an important role in the apprehension and sentencing of juveniles, as they are not considered adults. Family involvement can have a colossal impact on how a juvenile absorbs the consequences for his or her
When a child is being abused, he/she will more likely act out in illegal ways before telling someone. A child becomes internal when they are being abused, and seeks ways to numb the pain this can be through drugs and alcohol. When these factors are added in to the already traumatized child crime does not follow too far behind. It is important to for other adult figures that are in their life to keep their eyes open to these signs. Sometimes all it takes is someone who the child can form a bond with to talk to him or her for the child to open up.
The main three I will focus on are family functioning, economic status and a two-parent versus a single-parent household. All of these factors hold a key role in the juveniles’ upbringing and the role they play in society as well. These factors also lead to delinquency if the family is not a properly functioning family. A theoretical view of social disorganization will explain why and how family structure impacts juvenile delinquency. This paper will also look at possible racial, gender, and other variations in the family structure-delinquency relationship.
Evaluate upbringing as an explanation of criminal behaviour. Upbringing can be defined as the background to an individual’s life where a study by Farrington can explain criminality where he focuses on youth’s backgrounds because we need to look into someone’s past experience whether offender/non-offender which might influence his/hers behaviour later on in life. Theories that use upbringing suggests that what happens during early childhood experiences which can greatly impact on a person’s susceptibility to turn to crime in the future. Farrington had come up with some other predicting factors of crime which include parental divorce and lack of supervision from parents. The study by Farrington et al.
In order to create and operate successful rehabilitation programs for juvenile delinquents we need to understand what causes juvenile delinquency. This is important because the rehab programs should be based and aimed toward fixing the problems that influence children to become delinquents. There are numerous reasons and factors that cause juveniles to commit delinquent acts. Many are not fully understood, but there are a few that are believed to be the main causes of delinquent
This treatment plan focuses on taking negative thinking patterns and inserting positive thinking patterns in their place. One study looked at this process as the Thought Changing Process. The curriculum for this process is exstensive and can be focused in many areas of the negative behavior (i.e. cognitive distortions, aggression and violence for sex offenders, responsibility, healthy behavior, etc.). This change is a continuous process that has to be worked on through every phase of treatment (Apsche, Evile, & Murphy, 2004).
A. Discuss the reality of being in detention and/or jail and what the consequences are of such confinement (i.e., social isolation, being stigmatized for life, possible loss of employment and dismissal from school). Building Blocks for Youth, an organization dedicated to creating a fair and just juvenile justice system, provides a realistic appraisal of the juvenile detention situation in the United States. 1. The child or children can be banned from school for being in a gang and starting fights with other kids for wearing the wrong (color, brand, shoes and the wrong hair cut).
Adult sentencing to juveniles will be historically discussed, statistically evaluated, study oriented, case based and quoted. Myths to this trend excess and programs initiated, that can integrate the future of a better light into the adult prison life as a juvenile. Courts acted as a […] “kind of well-meaning parent or kindly uncle looking after the best interests of the child…a view that …we should rehabilitate, not just punish, the child” (122). This form of juvenile justice was called parens partial (122). This system started to fade away and concerns grow as to how children were made into criminals in adult jails (122-123).
The stresses of wants and needs can be intensified by a society that is materialistic. Also, social changes can create anxiety and disillusionment for adolescents causing them to commit delinquent acts. Clearly, people have a tendency to mature in different stages until adulthood. When a juvenile does something wrong, they are then considered to be juvenile delinquent. All juvenile delinquent behaviors are influenced not only by the environment in which juveniles live, but also by what they observe in adults.
The purpose of the classification matrix is to suggest the presumptive sanction(s) for youth entering the juvenile justice system based on the seriousness of the present offense and the risk of continued delinquent behavior. Furthermore because of incomplete information in criminal history, social behavior, attitude behavior indicators, incomplete school data, medical history, and families background along with criminal history, this is assessment cannot properly assess these two juveniles. Additionally, the assessment cannot match the sanction with the level of control necessary to manage the risk, and offer the advantages of the matrix approach for a more accurate measure of recidivism than the use of a risk assessment only (Missouri Juvenile Offender Risk Assessment, 2003). In assessing the current information with an understanding the risk assessment is incomplete and pending further investigations the correctional strategy are assessed