Juvenile Justice System Essay
Tanishia Davis
Juvenile Justice System
Ledetra
2/10/15
The Future of the Juvenile
Justice System
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Community involvement in law enforcement courts
Sentencing corrections
Trends of the juvenile justice system
Causation theories
Law Enforcement Community
Involvement
Positive police-community relations are critical for the effectiveness of crime prevention. Many police have made efforts to connect by doing neighborhood watch and community night out. This effort is especially need in the underrepresented communities and ethnic communities.
Building relations in the community are especially needed to achieve the following goals:
1. Increase citizens willingness to report crimes to police.
2. Build trust and familiarity with the community. …show more content…
(Asc division and correction)
Trends of the Juvenile Justice
System
• Since the late 1980s, there has been growing concern about crimes committed by young people. News accounts of serious crimes committed by children and adolescents and criminologists ' warnings of a coming tide of vicious juveniles— sometimes referred to as super predators (see, e.g., Bennett et al., 1996)—have encouraged a general belief that young people are increasingly violent and uncontrollable and that the response of the juvenile justice system has been inadequate. Reacting to evidence of increases in juvenile violence, state and federal legislators have proposed, and most states have passed, laws that make the juvenile system more punitive and that allow younger children and adolescents to be transferred to the adult system for a greater variety of offenses and in a greater variety of ways). Data about juvenile crime, in particular violent crime, and statistics about the size and characteristics of the juvenile population have played an important part in the policy debates (Zimring, 1998).
Causation Theories
• “Once a criminal, always a criminal”, this is the famous saying that is common in the American household and which most finds to be
Juvenile Justice System
Ledetra
2/10/15
The Future of the Juvenile
Justice System
•
•
•
•
Community involvement in law enforcement courts
Sentencing corrections
Trends of the juvenile justice system
Causation theories
Law Enforcement Community
Involvement
Positive police-community relations are critical for the effectiveness of crime prevention. Many police have made efforts to connect by doing neighborhood watch and community night out. This effort is especially need in the underrepresented communities and ethnic communities.
Building relations in the community are especially needed to achieve the following goals:
1. Increase citizens willingness to report crimes to police.
2. Build trust and familiarity with the community. …show more content…
(Asc division and correction)
Trends of the Juvenile Justice
System
• Since the late 1980s, there has been growing concern about crimes committed by young people. News accounts of serious crimes committed by children and adolescents and criminologists ' warnings of a coming tide of vicious juveniles— sometimes referred to as super predators (see, e.g., Bennett et al., 1996)—have encouraged a general belief that young people are increasingly violent and uncontrollable and that the response of the juvenile justice system has been inadequate. Reacting to evidence of increases in juvenile violence, state and federal legislators have proposed, and most states have passed, laws that make the juvenile system more punitive and that allow younger children and adolescents to be transferred to the adult system for a greater variety of offenses and in a greater variety of ways). Data about juvenile crime, in particular violent crime, and statistics about the size and characteristics of the juvenile population have played an important part in the policy debates (Zimring, 1998).
Causation Theories
• “Once a criminal, always a criminal”, this is the famous saying that is common in the American household and which most finds to be