Florine E. Barton AC0332400 Introduction to Criminal Justice (C5310) Writing Assessment 8 28 December 2012 Criminal Justice Diversion The definition for Criminal Justice Diversion is the Removal of Offenders from the Criminal Law at any stage of police and court process. It implies the formal halting or suspending of the traditional criminal proceeding against individuals who have violated criminal statues in favor of preceding them through some non-criminal disposition of means. Probation is a sentence of conditional release onto the community; suspended sentence is a disposition that implies supervision of the offender with a set or specified criteria and goals diversion that includes programs like youth service bureaus, public inebriate programs, civil commitment, citizen dispute settlement, and Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC). Criminal Justice Diversion is wrong due to the fact that it saves states and federal government money on incarnation and let criminal spent their time on probation or parole during community service. I think it is wrong and if you do the crime you should serve the time.
Types of Intervention Generally speaking, there are two broad approaches to dealing with youth gangs, and crime prevention generally (Cunneen and White, 2007). Specific strategies, programmes and policies tend to reflect either of the following orientations: Coercive Approaches – where the favoured approach is to use coercion or the threat of unpleasant sanctions as the principal way to keep young people in line, with a particular emphasis on law enforcement. Measures within this framework include street sweeps, zero tolerance policing, electronic surveillance, extensive use of private security and private police, youth curfews, mall and shopping centre bans and anti-gang legislation. Developmental Approaches – where attention is
The Adult Justice System Does More Harm Than Good. The rehabilitation system for juveniles is a must, to keep them from stepping into the vicious cycle of crime. To begin, the juvenile court was started over a hundred years ago. A basic theory motivating the juvenile court has been that all youth offenders need not go through the adult justice system. Therefore, the juvenile court was created to handle juvenile delinquents on the foundation of their youth instead of their crimes.
She also explained to me the jury is a “true” jury of their peers, meaning its youth who are of the same age ranging from ages 10 to 17. The intended purpose of Teen Courts as discussed in chapter 10 is for “Therapeutic jurisprudence, with a strong emphasis upon rehabilitation” (p.368). This implies that although a juvenile should indeed be held accountable for his/her actions, he/she should be given the opportunity to learn from the mistake made and to hopefully move forward in a positive direction. Chapter 10 describes the use of Teen Courts as the following, “An alternative to traditional juvenile court processing”
* Local Safe Guarding boards * Revised legislations for physical punishment, it is now an offence to hit a child if it causes mental harm or leaves a lasting mark. * CAF common assessment framework- helping to identify individual needs. * Revised arrangements for sharing information- data protection act 1998 * The outcomes for ECM – Every child matters, a green paper that emerged from the report of Lord lamming, made in in response to Victoria Climbie’s terribly tragic death. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 The 2006 revised is an update on safeguarding and a national framework to help agencies work individually and together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Vetting and Barring Scheme The Scheme was introduced in October 2009 with the aim of preventing
Child Development, 61: 1289-1309. Ericson, N. (2001). Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Bullying. OJJDP Fact Sheet #27. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Is it evident that the criminal justice system is essentially a political entity whose basic framework is lodged within the legislative judicial, and executive branches of government and in the context of juvenile justice reform it is essential to impose proper care and concern for a sane future of the society? The first recommendation for the reform in the juvenile justice system involves fundamental fairness for all youth who become involved in the system as because it is essential to society that person involved should grow up without any grudge against the judicial system at least in the terms of nature of justice. Also my thoughts on juvenile crime is without a doubt one of the biggest problems society is facing today ,and partly society is to blame for it. There
1. Discuss the issues surrounding the age of criminal responsibility. There are many issues surrounding the age of criminal responsibility. The main issues are how to deal with young offenders as young as ten years of age for a crime that they might commit. The question is should young offenders be treated like adults and receive the same sanctions for similar crimes that they might commit.
A Problem With The Court System: Should We Lower The Age Of Conviction For Minors? Jessie L. Blair Flagler College SOC 260 R. Parker Abstract: The Juvenile Justice System is a specific branch of the court system that deals with the prosecution and imprisonment of minors, or people below the legal age of eighteen who have committed crimes. These individuals are dealt with by the juvenile courts, their sentence is determined by them, and they are dealt with entirely by the juvenile facilities. However, some believe that the age in which children are finally considered “adults” is not accurate and that the Juvenile court system is too lenient when it comes to “children” committing serious crimes. This paper will address the idea of lowering the legal age, so that those individuals in the proper age range who commit certain serious crimes will be tried as adults, thus receiving the proper
As for older gangs that are organized and commit the more violent crimes, prevention usually involves getting the community to protect themselves. They can create a neighborhood watch programs, they have to be willing to advise the police of suspicious activities and not create environment where gangs can thrive. People need to believe that they have equal opportunities to succeed and educate themselves, gangs are less likely to exist. Techniques for gang interventions vary with the division that is handling the case. They all have the same goal, that is to stop gang violence.