Future of the Juvenile Justice System Proposal Gina Tompkins, Marcus Hall, Terri Washington, Victor Jones CJA 374 November 24, 2013 Bruce Clingan Future of the Juvenile Justice System Proposal The juvenile justice system is designed to correct and change the behavior of juvenile offenders. Change in behavior is an indication the system is working. If there is no change, the system is deemed ineffective and a team of juvenile justice consultants are called in to make corrections. In reality
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and the rehabilitation process for them should be different as well. Until the late 19th century children and adults where tried alike in criminal courts. When a juvenile offender commits a crime it is the responsibility of the state to rehabilitate the juvenile offenders, as well as protect them. Youth crime rates have actually declined over the past twenty years, despite the public’s perception that it has increased. This has led to an overwhelming support that the juvenile court system be restructured
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Juvenile Justice Process and corrections Arica Kritz CJA/374 January 27, 2014 Joseph Maffia Introduction Every child within the juvenile justice proceedings will receive an individualized plan for rehabilitation, (sometimes this may include punishment). This plan is specialized for the specific needs of the juvenile and with success the results will produce a law abiding and high functioning juvenile, in which will help guarantee these positive behaviors through adulthood. Case study
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Child Criminals: Is Punishment or Rehabilitation The Answer? Lisa Perdew Prof. H. Mathers Ivy Tech Community College With the growing number of crimes being committed by juveniles the question of whether punishment as adults or rehabilitation in a youth facility is the better option has never been more relevant. Some say that if a child commits a heinous crime, such as murder, they should be punished just as an adult would be. Others say child criminals are children
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ENG 105 Why Rehabilitation Works and Imprisonment Does Not The drug epidemic is something that has affected many families all over the world. Drug abuse puts a lot of stress on parents, brothers, sisters, and grandparents – anyone who is part of the home (“Alcohol”). Along with the drug epidemic comes the criminal activity to obtain the drugs. Our nation’s prison population has exploded beyond capacity and most inmates are in prison, in large part, because of substance abuse: 80% of offenders
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Overcrowding in prisons is one of the biggest challenges facing the American criminal justice system today. The total population of prisons and jails in the United States neared the 2.1 million mark in June 2003, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported incarceration rates of state and federal prisoners continued to rise. At midyear 2003, the number of sentenced inmates was
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CRJ301: Juvenile Justice Professor Jodi Levit February 27, 2010 Juvenile’s Rights The purpose of the United States juvenile justice system is to protect society more effectively by not just punishing children who commit crimes but attempting to rehabilitate them. The criminal justice system is here for us so that criminals are taken off the streets and to protect and keep us citizens safe as best as they can. Although it may seem hard to keep the nation safe, take criminals off the streets
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Restorative Justice Paper Joseph R. Bain CJA 224 July 05, 2014 Aileen Azadian Introduction Among many basic human qualities is the fundamental need to assign blame and punish wrongdoers. With the framing of the U.S. Constitution the people and the government sought to stress the importance of law in order to maintain among many things, moral principles which were vital to human life, justice and liberty. The expectation being of course that laws would help maintain social order which would
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Criminal justice System Three main components in the Criminal justice Those components are polices, courts, and Corrections They each play a significant role in the various stages .The content will be an overview of the criminal justice System as well as a description of the police officer, district attorney, defense attorney and local magistrate roles., Each component will be defined according to the American criminal
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capacities of adolescents, we again acknowledge the differences between youth and adult offenders. Perhaps it is time for another period of reform in our juvenile justice system. When punishing crime there are four goals that can be achieved: retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. The modern adult criminal justice system focusses mainly on retribution and incapacitation. As a society, we want to be "tough on crime" so we have all but
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