B) Alternative Approaches Maryland
Maryland’s rising juvenile rate has made the state become more of restorative justice and more so a system of graduated sanctions in those sanctions there is three basic goals: public safety and community protection; offender accountability; and competency and character development. In other hand these ideas give Maryland to go to new directions (Simms, 2008). In Maryland the juvenile justice system is different than most states. The “The juvenile court may waive its jurisdiction with respect to a petition alleging delinquency if the petition concerns a child who is at least 15 years old or a child who is charged with committing an act which, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by death or life imprisonment. The court may waive its jurisdiction only after it has conducted a waiver hearing held prior to the adjudicatory hearing and after notice has been given to all parties. The court may not waive its jurisdiction over a case unless it determines, from a preponderance of the evidence presented at the hearing, that the child is an unfit subject for juvenile rehabilitative measures”. (Chapter 8) furthermore, in Maryland the juvenile courts handles all case that deal with juvenile. However, any juvenal that committed a crime that if the adults could be punished by death than the juvenal gets waived and also the child have to be at least 14 years old at the time the crime was committed(Delegate Montague, et al, 2002) . In additions, a child who is 16 years old who have committed the flowing crime; abductions, kidnapping, second degree or attempted murder, robbery with deadly weapon, rape and another crime if committed by adult that can be punishable by death than in Maryland the case can get transferred to adult court ( Delegate Montague, et al, 2002). The types of procedures used are different state by state and