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    Juvenile Justice Policy

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    The Juvenile Justice Policy Jason Austin The juvenile justice system in dealing with juvenile offenders has cyclically gone from a rehabilitative approach to a punitive approach a number of times since its inception (Jenson & Howard‚ 1998). Research by Bernard (1992)‚ as cited in Jenson and Howard (1998)‚ examined the history of the juvenile justice system from 1820 and found that when juvenile crime is determined to be high‚ the justice system responds with severe punishments and few

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    Juvenile Crimes and its relation with Family The symbol of the family means support‚ taking care of each of their members‚ giving love‚ guiding the children‚ building their values and educating them on what is right or wrong‚ good or bad. If the symbol of family is lost and parents do not show much attention to their children‚ this will negatively lead the children to do crimes and apply physical violence. Before‚ parents used to enroll their children in many summer activities to consume their

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    Concern in Juvenile Forensic Psychology When a crime is committed by a juvenile should they be automatically treated as an adult? This is definitely a question that arises when the crime is an aggressive one or heinous in its occurrence. This is circumstance presents forensic psychologists specializing in the area of the juvenile court system will become involved in. They share many of the same responsibilities as do their counterparts practicing within the adult legal system but when a juvenile becomes

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    Rights of Juveniles

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    Describe the Legal rights juveniles have today To protect juveniles from self-incrimination‚ provisions were made to have the Miranda rights available before being questioned by the police. A 1979 us supreme court ruling found that juveniles should have a waiver and be old enough to understand the consequences of waiving their rights. The Miranda rights also protects juveniles against the unlawful search of their personal property‚ unless it is to maintain order and safety among other students

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    Is the Reid technique capable of generating false confessions‚ and if so are the safeguards sufficient to insure that these false confessions will not be used against innocent subjects? I will have to say as in life‚ nothing is perfect. Yes‚ the Reid technique is capable of generating false confessions. If certain elements are present then there are circumstances during the interrogation that will produce a false confession. Some of these (obvious) elements are improperly and mishandling of the

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    Processing Juveniles “Contact with a police officer often is a young person’s introduction to the juvenile justice system.” (Bolden-Barrett‚ n.d.) Whenever this occurs‚ there are potentially two outcomes‚ the police officer either sends a summons to a juvenile justice system pertaining to the offense/s of the juvenile or they choose to throw out the case. “Law enforcement’s role with youthful offenders‚ boys and girls under 18‚ is particularly challenging because federal law protects young people

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    Juvenile Crime

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    Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile’s commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile’s commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty‚ repeated exposure to violence‚ drugs‚ easy access to firearms‚ unstable family life and family violence‚ delinquent peer groups‚ and media violence. Especially

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    Throughout the episodes‚ this piece of literature argues that only those truly guilty of malicious crimes towards society deserve a just death (Dexter). Our country claims that capital punishment is justifiable because they claim to only kill those truly guilty of crimes. Nothing is more extreme than taking a life‚ so it is important

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    Juvenile Justice

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    The Juvenile Criminal Justice System and Adult court system have many simalities and differences. While the Juvenile Justice system is more concerned with rehabilitation of the Juvenile so he wont contine with more crime when he become an adult ‚ the adult court sytem is looking look to punish the adults with more harsh time‚ and consequences. They share similarlites such as procedural safeguards to protect their rights and also they both have the right to councel to help defend they self. Even though

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    Juvenile Delinquency

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    Juvenile delinquents‚ or youth that have been convicted of a crime‚ seem to be the norm these days. Citizens‚ families‚ and poliy makers want new programs and policies within the juvenile justice system. Researchers have found that the family structure can be a precursor to delinquent behavior‚ and families do not have the control or blance that they once did. As such‚ mew measures need to be implemented to help these families in crisis. Rehabilitation of the family unit is the answer‚ say many

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