Juveniles in the Justice System
Juveniles in the Justice System
Name: Kelly Liberty
Instructor: Jerry Glover
Course: Criminology
Date: 13 July 2013
Juveniles in the Justice System
Introduction
Children are not just born delinquents; by law, a juvenile delinquent is a person under the age of eighteen who is found guilty in a court of law for committing some sort of crime. Juveniles are normally products of circumstances, chance, and their surroundings. Juveniles who are in an area of violence and crime learn to disagree with authority and their superiors, also leading them to participate in crime because it is the acceptable thing to do.
Over 100 years ago the juvenile justice system was designed. This system was built to help develop the kids who were found guilty of minor crimes such as petty theft and truancy. It seems as if the system now has been overrun by more extreme crimes of violence. Back in the day, stealing and skipping school were the majority of the reasons children were considered juveniles and handled lightly, but today those “crimes” have been replaced by larger problems such as rape and murder. The system was not meant to deal with those types of issues; it was founded to help prove that children were not fully responsible for their conduct and could be rehabilitated. But what does the system do to fix the mass raping’s and murders children are now committing? I think that might be a reason why children are now being tried as adults and placed in adult prisons and jails, which makes it a harder recovery for the juveniles to make it back to society.
References “A Broken Juvenile Justice System.” Baltimore Sun. N.p., 06 Aug. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013 http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-08-06/news/bs-ed-juvenile-jail-editorial-20120806_1_million-juvenile-jail-adult-facility-youthful-offenders
This article gave me a better understanding on how brutal minors are treated in a juvenile center. It told me about how in juvenile
Name: Kelly Liberty
Instructor: Jerry Glover
Course: Criminology
Date: 13 July 2013
Juveniles in the Justice System
Introduction
Children are not just born delinquents; by law, a juvenile delinquent is a person under the age of eighteen who is found guilty in a court of law for committing some sort of crime. Juveniles are normally products of circumstances, chance, and their surroundings. Juveniles who are in an area of violence and crime learn to disagree with authority and their superiors, also leading them to participate in crime because it is the acceptable thing to do.
Over 100 years ago the juvenile justice system was designed. This system was built to help develop the kids who were found guilty of minor crimes such as petty theft and truancy. It seems as if the system now has been overrun by more extreme crimes of violence. Back in the day, stealing and skipping school were the majority of the reasons children were considered juveniles and handled lightly, but today those “crimes” have been replaced by larger problems such as rape and murder. The system was not meant to deal with those types of issues; it was founded to help prove that children were not fully responsible for their conduct and could be rehabilitated. But what does the system do to fix the mass raping’s and murders children are now committing? I think that might be a reason why children are now being tried as adults and placed in adult prisons and jails, which makes it a harder recovery for the juveniles to make it back to society.
References “A Broken Juvenile Justice System.” Baltimore Sun. N.p., 06 Aug. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013 http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-08-06/news/bs-ed-juvenile-jail-editorial-20120806_1_million-juvenile-jail-adult-facility-youthful-offenders
This article gave me a better understanding on how brutal minors are treated in a juvenile center. It told me about how in juvenile