Essays on Juvenile Justice

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The current reformation process of teenagers in the US juvenile justice system is largely aimed toward retributive justice. The system is overly focused on the fact that arrest and incarceration is a punishment as a result of negative behavior. This has also led society to be blindsided about the possible futures of these teens. People,…

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The number of juvenile delinquents has been on the upraise for a decades now, nevertheless no one is worried about how it got to these point, why the child or teen resulted to crime, and how we can prevent others from following the the same footsteps. We are thought at a young age if you…

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, a British Army officer and writer once stated, “Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.” Currently, I…

The case is eight-year-old Madyson Middleton murdered by fifteen-year-old Adrian Gonzalez. In Santa Cruz, at an apartment complex on the 26th of July, 2015, eight-year-old Madyson was lured by her fifteen-year-old neighbor Adrian with ice cream to his mothers apartment. Once he had her in the apartment he raped, duct taped her neck and stabbed…

2,500 let that be a number you have engraved into your bain. 2,500 children serving life imprisonments in this “free” country of ours. Majority of the rest of the world have no children imprisoned for life the U.S is the only country currently imprisoning children for life. 2,500 yet were not doing enough for our…

Everyone seems to have an opinion about our correctional system today: how it should be run, who should be in it, and how the people inside are dealt with. What many do not realize now is that juveniles are greatly affected by this system as well. If a child somehow finds their way into the…

Purpose The purpose of this research article is to show that most of the crimes committed by juveniles are co- offending crimes. This means crimes that are committed by one or more people. While reading this article I noticed they specifically focused in on co- offending is related to the age of the offenders, recidivism,…

Depending on the case, and if the actions of Jack were not the serious the arresting offices may want to set up a conference with the parents and the juvenile; however in the case of Jack a custodial arrest was made based on the severity of the case and was transfer to a juvenile detention…