Juvenile Justice System Essay
Future of the Juvenile Justice System
Cody Cotton
Dave Muser Noe Farjado Robert Thomas
CJA/403
March 22, 2011
Jaime Roman
Future of the Juvenile Justice System
The juvenile justice system has a tremendous influence on today’s troubled youth and empirical evidence has shown the juvenile crime to have a direct correlation with adult crime. At risk juveniles that are not rehabilitated by the juvenile justice system are destined to commit crimes as adults. The following are recommendations for all aspects of the system including the community, law …show more content…
A drawback to youth being incarcerated in adult corrections facilities is the youth being taken advantage of by adult offenders and staff, a higher suicide rate, and lesser or inadequate treatment for the youth (“Adult Crime, Adult Time: Punishing Violent Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System,” 2003). The lower recidivism rate should not be used as an excuse for the inadequate treatment of …show more content…
Some are quite sophisticated, whereas others are predicated on rather basic “instinctive” conclusions that may or may not have a basis in fact (Martin, 2005). In 1994, the town of Vernon, Connecticut, enacted the first juvenile curfew law. This law made it so that any individual under 18 years of age could not be out in any public place or business without the company of their parents. This law came into effect after local town leaders had noticed groups of teenagers wandering the streets the same night a teenager was murdered in the town. This law was enacted with the goal of minimizing juvenile delinquency and also for protection of young people. Unfortunately this law was held to be unconstitutional due to violations of the right to free movement and equal protection rights of
Cody Cotton
Dave Muser Noe Farjado Robert Thomas
CJA/403
March 22, 2011
Jaime Roman
Future of the Juvenile Justice System
The juvenile justice system has a tremendous influence on today’s troubled youth and empirical evidence has shown the juvenile crime to have a direct correlation with adult crime. At risk juveniles that are not rehabilitated by the juvenile justice system are destined to commit crimes as adults. The following are recommendations for all aspects of the system including the community, law …show more content…
A drawback to youth being incarcerated in adult corrections facilities is the youth being taken advantage of by adult offenders and staff, a higher suicide rate, and lesser or inadequate treatment for the youth (“Adult Crime, Adult Time: Punishing Violent Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System,” 2003). The lower recidivism rate should not be used as an excuse for the inadequate treatment of …show more content…
Some are quite sophisticated, whereas others are predicated on rather basic “instinctive” conclusions that may or may not have a basis in fact (Martin, 2005). In 1994, the town of Vernon, Connecticut, enacted the first juvenile curfew law. This law made it so that any individual under 18 years of age could not be out in any public place or business without the company of their parents. This law came into effect after local town leaders had noticed groups of teenagers wandering the streets the same night a teenager was murdered in the town. This law was enacted with the goal of minimizing juvenile delinquency and also for protection of young people. Unfortunately this law was held to be unconstitutional due to violations of the right to free movement and equal protection rights of