The local police department is in serious need of funding in all facets. The juvenile program has been hit the hardest and will need the largest cut of the grant because these programs keep youth from becoming repeat offenders or major felons. The rehabilitation and diversion programs are ways to help these juveniles without major cost to the states or counties by offering three to six month programs allowing juveniles a chance to get his or her charges dismissed. These programs help keep juveniles out of correctional facilities and release him or her back home to his or her family, sooner. This grant will discuss why the police department needs funding, the problems associated with not getting the proper funding,…
The juvenile justice system should focus on rehabilitation because while punishment may be unpleasant we need to focus on mental health assessment and services for youth (modelsforchange, n.d.). Most youth who are only punished reoffend because the reason for the initial offence was never addressed. Youth Outreach Services (YOS) focuses on mental health assessment and services for youths because upon identifying mental, emotional or ongoing problems caused by trauma the youth can receive follow-up testing or immediate assistance. The identifying of these problems can help family members understand and also better help the juvenile. In the last two years 95% of the juveniles that went to the rehabilitation program and screening of YOS avoided re-arrest (modelsforchange, n.d.). If we do not focus on rehabilitation we are depriving both society and the offenders of their full potential (the league of young voters, n.d.).…
This course is a general orientation to the field of juvenile justice, including causation theories and the development of system responses to delinquent behavior. The problems facing juveniles today are addressed, and adult and juvenile justice systems are compared, including initial apprehension, referral, and preventive techniques. Specific issues examined include chemical dependency, mental illness, and compulsive and habitual offenders. Special attention is given to the problems inherent in the police handling of juveniles and the function of juvenile courts.…
This study uses 341 delinquent youth from a Midwestern urban county at random to participate in the research (p. 229). The county was selected by having the highest number of juvenile offenders in that Midwestern urban area. This study was over a three year time period during the years of 2006 through 2008. There was about 6,900 probation cases used in the study (p. 232). The court in this county provided the court files to further research the study. They used the juveniles’ “court history, probation supervision cases files and the mental health assessments for the youth that was selected to be studied” (p. 232). Three different independent variables were being studied such as race, substance abuse, and mental health disorders.…
Courts try to circumvent the path these young people are on by addressing underlying issues that moved them to be in the possession of drugs. One of the main purposes of drug court is supervised probation, which is mandatory part of the juvenile’s treatment. Probation officers are trained to conduct clinical assessments, to monitor the treatment of the juvenile and conduct drug testing. As expected, other treatment and conditions apply. The only real difference between a juvenile drug court and the adult drug court is…
After graduation of the program the citizens can become functioning members of the society. How can this be done effectively for juveniles? The first drug courts were created for adults in 1989 and the procedures used within the adult drug court system were used to create the juvenile drug court system (Franco, 4). However through research and time the juvenile drug court system has made substantial changes to benefit the juvenile. For example “the psychological attributes and developmental needs of adolescent offenders who enter the drug court system are substantially different from adult offenders and must be taken into account when planning any behavior change intervention” (Stein, 2).…
More and more juveniles are being incarcerated in adult prisons because of legislation dropping the age juveniles are allowed to be tried as an adult and expanding the list that are considered adult crimes. States vary as to how old and where a juvenile is incarcerated. They may have to wait until a certain age to be transferred to an adult facility or they have to go in ight after sentencing. Sometimes they are in the general population of adults and others they try to keep them in different areas, but it all depends on the state and what their legislature says. Adult prisons do not meet the needs of a developing juvenile therefore putting them at risk for abuse and attempting suicide. Studies have shown that the younger juveniles are…
Effective programs’ has positive impacts on juveniles in the criminal justice system. Juvenile offenders attending programs that focus on helping the offenders and “increasing family problem- solving skills, enhancing emotional connections between family members, and strengthening parental ability to provide appropriate structure” (Wilson, 2011, p. 121) have a positive impact on reducing recidivism in the juvenile justice system. Cost outweighs the benefits of effective programs. Ineffective programs such as discipline and deterrence programs have a negative impact on juvenile offenders and increase recidivism rates in juveniles. The cost to send juveniles to ineffective programs does not outweigh the benefits.…
The first reason to change the juvenile justice systems is about those students who show up in the courtroom who shouldn’t be there. For example does students that have good grades and don’t cause any trouble end up in the courtroom for a fight they did not start. That a schoolyard fight or a moment of mouthing at a teacher is no reason to pull out handcuff.(St George, Donna 1) .What St.George is saying is right. That’s how life is everyone messed up…
It was found that the juvenile treatment facilities offered treatment oriented programs and had therapeutic models of rehabilitation. The juveniles felt that they were cared for and they were taught appropriate behaviors. Counseling was also provided (Redding, 2006, p. 17).…
The American juvenile justice system has developed over the past century with numerous differences that distinguish it from the adult criminal justice process. The juvenile system has a tremendous influence on today’s troubled youth. It is one of the criminological problems that is growing everyday not only in our country but also worldwide. At risk, juveniles that are not rehabilitated by the juvenile system are more likely to commit crime as adults. According to our text (Cox & Allen), there are many issues that can cause a juveniles to increase their criminal behavior such as; biological,…
Though the perspective may sound reasonable, the public may not be aware of the particular impacts it can have in an adolescent’s development. Soulier & Scott contend that adult prisons do not offer “developmentally appropriate treatment” for juveniles who are being incarcerated in them (321). Once in the adult system, a juvenile’s potential to rehabilitate may diminish considerably since it lacks many of the resources that can educate them. Michele Deitch et al. discuss a survey of adult jails consisting of educational programs. They concluded that 40% of them had no such services at all, 11% provided special education classes and only 7% offered vocational training (53). Therefore retaining juveniles in the appropriate system may influence a different attitude and perspective towards a better future. Regardless of the crime they may have committed, juveniles are still children who need to be…
In the society, we live in today; juvenile justice is nationwide concern of law enforcement. However to what the extent the laws and penalties used towards the youth today has been a major focus of many criminologists and organizations around the nation. Many people feel that all the laws should be prosecuted to the fullest extent, however there are just as many who feel the minor offenses should be dismissed so that the juvenile’s future and record will not be tarnished for a nonviolent law. The juvenile justice system needs to be strict with even minor, nonviolent offense because the record of juvenile may be studied to predict future violators.…
Juveniles 18 and younger are committing more violent crimes. For this reason Legislation is being sought after to try juveniles as adults. These offenders have been sentenced as an adult and are held in adult prisons but, are developmentally immature. An issue to consider is, segregation of the juvenile, staff specifically trained, and educational programs available. Also treatment programs must be available and designed for the youth (CJi Interactive, University of Phoenix,…
The juvenile prison system can help kids turn their lives around; rehabilitation gives kids a second chance. Successful rehabilitation is better for society in the long run than releasing someone who's spent their entire young adult life in general prison population. A young person released from juvenile prison is far less likely to commit a crime than someone coming out of an adult facility. I want to research why this is.…