CJA 484: Ethics In Criminal Justice Administration

Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis
CJA/484
April 20, 2014
Lori Madison

Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration Analysis
The United States of America, its government, and the Criminal Justice Administration are all governed under the same set of governmental laws. These governmental laws are documented within the U.S. Constitution. Each amendment to the Constitution provides basic rights for citizen of the United States. Signed by delegates and presided by President George Washington, the Constitution was designed to provide a stronger federal government under the three branches; executive, legislative and judicial (The Constitution, 2014) In proceeding involving
The juvenile justice sector applies to individual under the age of 18 that are unable to be tried in the adult court system. Juvenile accused of committing crimes could face a transfer to the adult court system in conformance with some state laws and the specific crime that was committed. Juveniles later found guilty are not convicted of committing crimes, but rather delinquencies. Enforced by the state, in most cases, juvenile justice focuses on lower the recidivism rate by rehabilitating offenders. Rehabilitation, rather than imposing punishment on juveniles eliminates the hardening of the juveniles. Confined juveniles often learn the ways of more violent juveniles that they would not learn if they were sentenced to rehabilitation instead. With newly acquired skills from other jailhouse inmates, juveniles are more likely to go on to commit more serious crimes. As for adults, the technique is often punishment and then rehabilitation due to the fact that society views children as more likely to change rather than adult
Parens patriae is the power of the state in which the juveniles resides to act as a guardian for juveniles that are unable to care for themselves. In order for the state to take power over a juvenile they must either be disabled or unable to take care of themselves. Under the parens patriae doctrine, a judge may change child support arraignments, custody of a minor, or any other area that that affects a child’s wellbeing, without the juveniles parental consent. Safeguards such as parens patriae give way for rehabilitation and change for juvenile catching themselves in the juvenile justice system (Education For Freedom, n.d.). The fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments in relation to juveniles are meant to protect them from the criminal justice system and rehabilitate them in an effort to keep them out of the system once and for all. The juvenile justice system has been created as a separate sector of the justice system with its own set of structured statutes aimed towards juvenile delinquents. Such statutes protecting juveniles were not always in place, at one point juveniles were deprived of liberty, later after extensive examination juveniles were extended such right as the right to counsel, the right against self-incrimination and the right to notice and cross-examining witnesses. It is important to remember that such safeguards have not always been in place to protect those accused of