Juvenile Incarceration Prevention It is estimated that roughly 500,000 juveniles are brought to detention centers every single year, which means that is 26,000 children being stripped from their families every day for a misuse of judgment, according to the Justice Policy Institute. To make these matters worse, it was also researched that as many as 70 percent of these crimes were not even violent misdemeanors which includes offenses that did not involve a weapon or cause injury to another person
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thoroughly cover the establishment of Juvenile Delinquent Diversion Programs and how it contributes to recidivism rates among young offenders. The first part will discuss a detailed description of delinquent diversion programs along with its history and purpose behind its creation. The second part will discuss specifically the Juvenile Drug-Court Diversion Program and how it is applied to the traditional court process. The final part will touch on how the Juvenile Drug-Court Diversion Program contributes
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The juvenile justice system was first established in the state of Illinois and has grown substantially since 1899. Once informal and taken as nothing more than a conversation between the juvenile offender and the judge, to replace confinement in adult prisons, the courts created a probationary system- one which would be used for the supervision of minors, education and guidance. Today, the juvenile justice system remains focused on its primary goal, which is to rehabilitate the juvenile offender
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Social Construction of crime: Platt (1969) – Juvenile Delinquency (Youth crime, is participation in illegal behavior by minors) Originally created as a result of a campaign by upper class Victorian model entrepreneurs, aimed at protecting young people at risk. This established ‘juveniles’ as a separate category of offender with their own courts, and it enabled the state to extend its powers beyond criminal offences involving the young, into so-called ‘status offences’ such as truancy and sexual
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Margie P. Permenter CJ 606: The Transferring of Juvenile Offenders Commentary Three Dr. Yaschica Williams The most serious juvenile crimes have always been the political Achilles’ heel of the American juvenile court Fagan & Zimring (2000). Even when public opinion is tolerant of juvenile delinquency, the teen killer is the nightmare case for the juvenile justice system. In an age where the phrase juvenile super predator is often heard in the federal congress and state legislatures, the deep-end
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involving violent juvenile crime. Juvenile crime is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “conduct by a juvenile characterized by antisocial behavior that is beyond parental control and therefore subject to legal action”. A violent juvenile crime would be considered conduct that also harms oneself or harms the people around them. While these acts are heinous and hurt not only themselves and others, we debate on how to solve the problem. While some lay blame to the juveniles themselves, other
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they are supposed to serve. Juvenile rights advocates argue that juveniles can learn the mistakes of their ways if given the opportunity. They believe that if they are able to rehabilitate these juveniles than they can decrease future crimes. Although this aspect of rehabilitation can be effective in fighting crime it has not been. Instead of this program decreasing future crime, it has in fact risen over the past decade. In the book “Statistics and Trends in Juvenile Justice and Forensic Psychology”
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Sociological Theory Responses Michele Ford CJS/240 11/16/2014 The social structure theory equates delinquency to socioeconomic conditions. Living in impoverished communities, it is believed, will cause people to choose delinquent behaviors.(Wadsworth2005) Toledo, Ohio has programs in place to help alleviate the hardships of poverty. Lucas County Jobs and Family Services, offers food stamps, cash assistance, and medical coverage. Through them a program called “The Source” was started. They
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Gender and family According to the Florida Department of Corrections, has received 6,619 juvenile offenders that were sentenced to juvenile facilities and a total of 89,776 individual youths during the 2007-2008 year (Florida Department of Corrections 2008). The report released by the Florida Department of Corrections states that of the above number of juveniles handled, 28, 113 were females. What is the reasoning thought to be behind why males are more inclined to be involved
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The laws that shape our juvenile justice system are written with regards to the offender’s gender, which assumes that both genders face the same issues and delinquency risks. Statistics have proven that males make up an overwhelming majority of the delinquents in the juvenile justice system. As a result, most systems are designed to deal with the needs of males as the priority and simply adjust to the female offenders needs if possible. This is counterproductive as female offenders show different
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