Juvenile Court System For Juveniles

The juvenile justice system was created for a simple but specific reason, and that was to have a separate system for juveniles. Juveniles were treated as adults before the first juvenile court was established in the 1800’s. According to the book the juvenile system was created to focus on “rehabilitation of youthful offenders” (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). I think there are two systems for a reason, but they are different in a lot of ways. One the big difference is age, most juvenile are under the age of 18. People under the age of the 18 are probably are immature and not really aware of the consequences of their actions, but of course there are some exceptions to this depending on the situation. Also Juveniles are to be separate from adult offenders, so they won’t get hurt or even learn how to be better delinquents from the adult criminals. Another
The distinction that treatment rather than punishment states a juvenile should be treated rather than punished like adult offenders. To be separate from adult offenders, in every part of the process from arrest to sentencing. An informal and private proceeding simply means that court proceedings for juveniles are informal and private. Another distinction for juvenile court procedures is to focus more on juvenile background and social history to make a decision for treatment not the actual facts of the crime. Also juveniles have shorter terms of supervision or incarceration and distinctive terminology because they are treated differently from adults because of their immaturity and limited legal accountability (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). The reason behind this distinction was to focus more on prevention and treatment rather that