...support or engage in activities of public interest without any external commercial or monetary profit. The organization sole purpose is to help remedy the increased problem of juvenile delinquency problems in Philadelphia lessening the burdens of the local and federal governments, lessening neighborhood tensions; elimination prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by laws; and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency. Philadelphia as any other big city in the United States is struggling with delinquency of juvenile. It is our mission to help these young people by working with other agencies in the county who share our mission minimized this problem. Amount of grant requested: $1000, 000 PROJECT NEED Barbu’s Foundation will address the increasing problem of Juvenile delinquency that is brought about by the problems of broken homes, poverty, and single parenthood. The Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) primarily work with delinquent youth and children in the city, but studies have shown that they are overwhelmed by the increased in this phenomena, and about 15% of youth and children in this category fall between the cracks. According to statistics about 20 % of all public school students in Philadelphia suffered from the effect of juvenile delinquency with only 7% of them been recovered by the system successfully, that is by stabilizing...
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...the journey of the juvenile justice system is life changing. Many juveniles along with family members, lack adjudication competence (an understanding of court processes) resulting in confusion and dismay. According to scholarly research, incarceration does not increase public safety but inadvertently leads to high recidivism rates. The juvenile justice system is a microcosm of a larger problem within the criminal justice system. Many juveniles enter the system with a myriad of issues and are often subjected to further trauma while detained. In 2012 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action suit (RJ v Jones), against the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) seeking improvements in the areas of education, mental health and the general safety conditions . To that end, there are benefits to encountering IDJJ that include support systems not available in the community or within families. A benefit...
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...“Also there is an acute delay in various processes under the Act including decision by Child Welfare Committees and Juvenile Justice Boards leading to high pendency of cases and delayed adoption, etc. We have observed that there is an inadequacy in provisions to deal with offences against children and provisions related to juveniles in conflict with law, in the age group of 16-18 years.’’ Key areas Explaining that the key areas of concern include streamlining the Central Adoption Resource Authority and ensuring shorter institutional stay for children awaiting adoption besides bringing in heavy penalty for children homes operating without registration and reporting abuse, Ms. Gandhi said: “We are re-looking at heinous crimes being committed by children wherein the case will be directed to the JJ Board which will decide if the child has to be tried by the Board or regular court.” The wider question the current debate on the JJA poses is: ‘When does their childhood end and adulthood begins?’ The courts have rightly said that the end of childhood can hardly be treated like the deadline for a government job. Unfortunately, that is how the present law treats the border of childhood. It regards the 18th birthday as a truth cast in stone. Even if a male has committed the most horrible act recorded in the recent history of sexual crimes, he must be treated as a juvenile, insists the JJA and its activist supporters. Such insistence leaves the judiciary helpless and understandably irritated...
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...addressed to the programs designed to reintegrate juvenile delinquents into civilized society has focused and spread, and the cause of the Youth has become news. The diversity in the origin of the problem has made a uniform system of rehabilitation a very difficult venture. Being a member of the “troubled youth” begins with a small issue, such as a family problem, mental health disorder, or substance abuse, one that should be addressed before the evolution of the crime, and then the justice system. The division of juvenile and adult court systems is a relatively recent aspect of criminal justice, and has yet to be perfected. The incarceration of children into restrictive, punitive environments expected for overage criminals limits the development of an adolescent, and limits the possibility of divining the roots of the negativity. How can we determine the extent of flexibility that should be allowed? How can the system work to prevent delinquency in youth while working with them? There are several points addressed with heavy intention when it comes to the reorganization of the juvenile justice system. The placement of juveniles within the system is guided by the severity of the criminal act the child is being tried for, with some offending youths sent back into their home space and provided services through community-based programs with little funding and less resources. Others are confined to under staffed and overcrowded juvenile detention facilities, where the atmosphere...
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...This paper will discuss strategies for implementing changes to the education of juveniles housed at the new Juvenile Justice Center. The Juvenile Justice Center, formerly Youth Study Center, will add vocational technical training to the regular education already offered to juveniles. Vocational technical training will offer juveniles employable skills upon release. To properly implement this training, management must develop a monitoring process, understand the relationships of processes, systems, and professional roles. Monitoring There are 3 components in the monitoring process of the implementation of a vocational technical education curriculum at the new Juvenile Justice Center. The monitoring components includes: 1) data collection; 2) evaluation and communication procedures; and 3) documentation. Data collection includes data relative to implementation. Ideally, these data should be able to summarize the effects of adding a vocational technical curriculum to the regular curriculum. At a minimum, monitoring data should include: ▪ Annual material and equipment costs ▪ Tracking released juveniles for employment ▪ Assessing regular education progress versus vocational technical process ▪ Significant changes in personnel In addition, management must identify who is responsible for the collection and frequency of data collection. All data should be collected frequently enough to make certain that information is recorded correctly. Evaluating the data collected...
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...pendix University of Phoenix Material Appendix B Juvenile Accountability Based on the readings this week, what is juvenile accountability? Write a definition of the term in your own words below. Juvenile accountability is when a young person takes responsibility for their own actions. Risk Factors for Chronic Offenders What are some of the risk factors associated with chronic offenders? Include at least six examples below. Some of the risk factors associated with chronic offenders are: Gender, neighborhood conditions, family, social influences such as friends, psychological issues, and individual characteristics. UCR and Self-Report Data Complete the matrix below. To complete this matrix, list two pros and two cons of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data and two pros and two cons of self-report data. |Statistical Information |Pros |Cons | |Official Information: | | | |Uniform Crime Report (UCR)|Most widely used source of national crime and |The number of arrests and people arrested are not the | | |delinquency. |same. | | |Compiled from statistics sent to the FBI from |The number of teenage arrests is not the...
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...together in a facility. “There are many different positions that make up the complement of prison staff” (Seiter, 2008). For each of the officials that are involved with these facilities. Every correction official and police officer will always be at risk and it is a risky job to have. Correction officials have to deal with riots, medical problems with inmates, keeping other inmates and other officials safe. There are many problems that an official is faced with. There are many officials who have to check all the mail that comes into the facility for the inmates to make sure that the mail does not contain any type of drugs or contraband. It has been known for drugs and contraband to get into facilities through mail and other ways. With juveniles, drugs are a huge issue that correction officials have to deal with. Many correction officials have found that the use of weapons is a big concern. Many inmates will find ways to make some type of weapon for safety or to hurt other inmates and possibly hurt the correction officials.” Every year, correctional officers are injured in confrontations with inmates. Correctional officers and jailers have one...
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...Lanier 06/13/2013 Juvenile justice in Virginia is based on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, which was passed in 1974 by US Congress. It stated that all states should provide the best rehabilitation for people who are too young to bear criminal responsibility for their actions (US Dept. of Justice, 1974). The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice has a set values statement, which determines the attitude to juveniles in criminal justice and respectful treatment provided by law enforcement officers to them. Juveniles in criminal justice are Virginia are treated as a specific group and have extended rights compared to adult offenders. Juveniles have their correctional centers and detention facilities, but the maximum sentence there cannot be too long because Virginia has not enough bed spaces to detain all juveniles who have problems with the law. The values of knowledge, respect and effective communication are realized in addressing juvenile cases in the court. Juvenile court is represented by Juvenile and Domestic Relations District courts in Virginia. However, there are certain cases when juvenile offenders can be tried in criminal court. According to Powers (2009), previously juvenile cases were heard in juvenile courts only. It was extremely difficult to transfer the case of juvenile offender (even the most violent) to the adult court. The latest US tendencies show that all...
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...Juvenile Crime Paper Kenyetta Steele CJS/200 June 29, 2014 Richards Daniels A juvenile court is a tribunal having special authority to try and pass judgment’s for crimes Committed by children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern Legal systems, children and adolescents who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults who have committed the same crime. A juvenile court may hear juvenile cases ranging from truancy to drug dependency issues. The parents or guardians of juveniles are usually required to appear and participate in the disposition of their child case. Disposition can include the parents or guardian being fined for not getting their child to school as required. Juvenile cases are handled differently than adult criminal cases. Instead of criminal district or county court, juvenile cases are heard by a juvenile court judge. There are many differences exist between the adult and juvenile court systems. At its core, the adult court system focuses on deterrence and justice as the rationale for prosecuting offenders whereas the juvenile system commits to rehabilitating delinquent youths into upstanding...
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...He lives with his mother in a public house and has no contact with his father. He is close to his mother and even his mother has concern for him. But she does not support the criminal activities of her son and has once reported Xander to police. He lives with his mother in a public house and has no contact with his father. He is close to his mother and even his mother has concern for him. But she does not support the criminal activities of her son and has once reported Xander to police. When he was 13 years old, his first juvenile adjudication took place. He served one year of custody in juvenile correction facility and was twice held in probation. The last crime he was arrested was for possessing a concealed weapon. He accepted the crime and was guilty for it. When he was 13 years old, his first juvenile adjudication took place. He served one year of custody in juvenile correction facility and was twice held in probation. The last crime he was arrested was for possessing a concealed weapon. He accepted the crime and was guilty for it. He is charged of purse snatching, breaking and entering, drug possession. He is charged of purse snatching, breaking and entering, drug possession. Xander L. is a 17 year old boy. He is African- American and is reported as a gang member. Xander L. is a 17 year old boy. He is African- American and is reported as a gang member. Xander L. Xander L. Flow chart of Xander L. and his activities and tracks/records He is a high school dropout...
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...family breakups are more prone to delinquency and hyperactivity. Blended families, or step-parent families, are occurring more often yet are less stable than biological families. Sociologist Sara McLanahan found that children who live with both biological parents do better than children who are raised without their biological father. These children are less likely to find and keep a job, finish high school and at a higher risk of becoming teen parents. McLanahan also found that boys who lack their father’s presence are more prone to delinquent behavior. Studies have also found that children who grow up in families experiencing dysfunction and have witnessed violence later show emotional and behavior problems. Many incarcerated juveniles have reported dysfunction in their families....
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...The Future of Juvenile Justice Clinton Hardy, Dominique Whitlock CJA /374 March 18, 2012 Bruce Clingan The Future of Juvenile Justice The state of juvenile justice system in American is at a crossroad. It is important that the states take more of an imitative at the local level to ensure the important components of the juvenile justice system are being met. This is a proposal for the juvenile justice system to adopt some of the aspects of the adult system by building a state of the art facility that houses probation, home confinement, work release, and community service all in one place. The necessity for these services is crucial to the commitment to rehabilitation of youthful offenders. This project is a joint venture with the Department of Corrections, the city government, and the Department of Juvenile Justice. There are three areas that this proposal will address as far as social need and the explanation for these services. The three areas of deficiency that have to be addressed in relation to delinquency are family life and financial need, diagnosis of mental disabilities, and the likelihood of offending based on ethnic background. The purpose of this new facility is not to punish, but to get to the root of the reason for offending. Mental Health of Juvenile Offenders The most effective way to diagnose the problems associated with juveniles who offend or continue to offend is to make sure that all offenders, at one point or another, have had a mental health...
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...Juvenile Rehabilitation Shelly Stanko CJS/240 February 26, 2012 Farrell Binder Juvenile Rehabilitation In the previous few decades, the United States justice policy has become more punitive. In particular, in the 1990s legislatures all over the county passed laws under which an increasing number of young people can be charged in criminal courts and incarcerated in adult prisons. Certainly, in nearly every state today, youths between 13 and 14 can be prosecuted and penalized as adults for an array of crimes including non-violent offenses (Kristin, 2009). Punishments have become more severe even in the juvenile system. Generally, it is believed that the rising anxiety among citizens concerning the threat of juvenile crime has propelled this tendency and that members of the public favor this legislative tendency toward severe punishment. However, it is unclear whether this opinion about the right solutions to youth crime is precise. On the other hand, different surveys have found the public favors tougher policies regarding youth crime and punishing juveniles as severely as adults. However, a thorough review of sources of information about public views indicates that the perception that the public favors punishment for youths is largely based on either opinion surveys that pose few simplistic questions or publicized crimes like school shootings. It is possible that analysis of public views...
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...Applications of Information Technology OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION The Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is committed to the protection of the public, utilizing intervention strategies that are community-based, family-oriented and least restrictive while emphasizing responsibility and accountability of both parent and child. As part of our core values we value the belief that everyone is to be treated with dignity and respect. We believe that each person has innate worth, dignity and capacity for positive change. We value services that are ethical, effective and culturally competent. We hold high and promote a positive image of the department, the employees and our role within the community. We take pride in an environment that promotes initiative, productivity, teamwork and professional growth. We uphold to an atmosphere which stresses tolerance and is free of discrimination. We strive in developing collaborative efforts with judicial, legislative and community partners. The Harris County Juvenile Probation Department operates a Leadership Academy, a Detention Center, a secure residential treatment center and a non-secure residential treatment center. ( hcjpd. Org, 2009). The Texas Family Code, Chapter 58 requires that agencies in Texas report juvenile criminal history to the Department of Public Safety in Austin beginning January 1, 1996. The Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is committed to the protection of the public, utilizing intervention...
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...favorite reptiles, the bearded dragons. Most people are influenced by their mean appearance, as was I when I saw them for the first time. Beardies, as we call them at work, are one of the most laid back reptiles you can ever handle. They are a very easy reptile to have; they just need specific living conditions, diet, and lighting. When getting a juvenile bearded dragon, you can start with a 20 gallon tank. This tank will last you about 6 months, and by that time you will need to upgrade to a 40 gallon breeder tank or larger. A breeder tank means it is at least 18 inches in width. You will also want to have a screen top on it to allow airflow and proper heat and lighting to sit on top. With a juvenile bearded dragon, you want to have a reptile carpet as the floor. If you use sand, or any other type of loose substrate, it can get clogged in their intestines while eating, and can potentially be fatal. Beardies also like branches and a hiding place to sleep in their habitat. Bearded Dragons are omnivores, meaning they eat meat and plants. The food they eat should be no bigger than the space between their eyes. If it is bigger than that space it can cause paralyzing of the back legs. As babies, you should feed them small crickets 2-3 times daily. Give them about six crickets each time to start out, increasing more as they get older. Once your bearded dragon is old enough, it can start eating mostly greens and only need crickets once a week. Once they are at this age, you can start...
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