Essay On The Juvenile Justice System

Q’orianka Kilcher once said, “I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.” There are two different paths to go down in life, the good and the bad. When growing up, there are certain things you adapt to and certain things you don’t. Some kids might have experienced loving, caring families while others might of had an unstable, neglectful childhood. For the ones that grew up in the “bad” household, they now have to make arrangements and adjustments to their lives to find that missing love they want/need. Even if that means doing illegal things. The relationship between girls and delinquency, has increased greatly throughout the
Girls commit fewer offenses, they commit less serious offenses, they are treated differently by justice officials, and they are typically easier to rehabilitate. Many women first become involved with the juvenile or criminal justice system as victims. Other ways include drug and alcohol use, economic struggle, and involvement with either a male or female gang. The system is unfair towards female adolescent because of society's disapproval of sexual activity. Society thinks that sexual activity is only done by males, even though it’s very unheard of that a female can be a rapist, it still happens; just not as much as males. The juvenile justice system has a tendency to give females longer sentences than males, because they are under the disguise of "protecting" the female juveniles. Keeping girls longer in detention and juvenile institutions, as compared to males detained for similar offenses is another example of the system “protecting” these female felons. These conditions of unfairness gets worse for those female delinquents of