facility‚ a correctional officer is responsible for the supervision and safety of the detainee. Correctional officers work in adult and juvenile detention centers‚ though in each facility their responsibilities differ pertaining to whether the detainee is an adult or a juvenile. Because of the ages of the detainees a correctional officer at a juvenile detention facility are greater than if they were dealing with adults. To understand what the differences are in regards to a juvenile‚ one must know‚ child
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The juvenile justice system has been around since the late 19th century. Before this time if a juvenile committed a crime they would be tried in the same court system as an adult. Today‚ this would seem very strange or unfair to most people. But‚ before the end of the 19th century there were no court systems designed for juvenile offenders. When it came to prosecuting juveniles in the adult court system‚ it had to be determined whether or not a juvenile could be criminally responsible for their actions
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police generally have more authority to control youthful behavior than adult behavior. This broadened authority allows the police to act "in place of the parent" and place the juvenile into a protective form of custody rather than a punitive form of detention. Once arrested‚ juveniles
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a masterpiece of what’s really going on to the streets nowadays and not only to the streets but also a film of self-realizing and life encounters on real life. It is not just on a perspective of an American football player who came from teenage detention juvenile centers but it is a film that can be reflected upon to other situations of life. There are three things in life I learned in this film which was somewhat‚ a life-changing for me. The first one was choices and living on its consequences
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Your older cousin‚ Michael‚ is fourteen years old. Last month‚ he went to a drugstore and robbed it with a group of boys. However‚ he killed the drugstore clerk by accident with a knife while threatening him to give them the money. The group of boys were arrested six hours later‚ and Michael was charged with felony murder. The court wanted to try Michael as an adult because he had committed a serious crime‚ and people have had different opinions about it. Trying teenagers as adults is an issue that
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More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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Age: A Magic Number? The age of 18 brings about freedom for young people in America. At 18‚ an individual legally becomes an "adult". An individual can now buy cigarettes or a home‚ enter adult-only clubs‚ vote‚ and even get married. Furthermore‚ from their 18th birthday and beyond‚ individuals are no longer tried for crimes in juvenile courts. Now‚ they are tried in adult courts. But‚ does one or two years make such a difference between sixteen year olds and eighteen year olds? Is it fair for one
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Officer As a juvenile intake officer your requirements for the job are‚ a bachelor’s degree in a field related to criminal justice‚ psychology or social work. In other cases‚ candidates may be able to start out in other positions in the juvenile detention system with only a high school diploma‚ often gaining the necessary experience to become a juvenile intake officer. Even if a candidate meets all the education requirements for a position‚ he or she may be required to complete a probationary period
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Lanika Alexander CJA/374 November 12‚ 2012 Deatrice Haney Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections When I first got picked up I was really scared but I knew what I had done was wrong. I had been breaking into houses for a while now. Always in and out real quick and I always picked the houses where I knew the owners were at work because they all lived on the same street as me so I knew their schedules as well as I knew my own. But this time it
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delinquents went through growing up or what they had to experience in order to get by in life. People need to realize that there is always a story behind a child’s action or behavior. The boys like the ones from True Notebooks end up in the juvenile detention center because they lack a positive role model in their lives. Every child wants to be someone in life but in order for them to be successful they need the support from their family. How could teenagers achieve that when their parents aren’t there
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