Should Juveniles be Treated as Adults Criminal Justice January 30‚ 2011 Should Juveniles be Treated as Adults Most young people in today’s world want to be considered as adults. But‚ they want the role and responsibilities of being adults to apply to certain situations when they want it to. Under the Georgia Legal Ages Law‚ 18 (§39-1-1) (2011)‚ the age of adulthood begins at age eighteen. America has always described the children as being the future‚ our greatest resource‚ as well as the
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The justice system is a forever changing system. Improvements are always being made and laws are always being passed. The justice system is much like evolution‚ it is constantly adapting to its environment. In 1908 in Chicago one of the most significant changes in history occurred in the justice system. This improvement in the justice system gave second chances to many deserving criminals. Children are the most capable people to change. The Juvenile justice system was introduced in Chicago and the
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with the New York House of Refuge in 1825. At this time most of the youth that were put into the “homes” were generally poor immigrants. Due to the mass amount of immigrants there was a concentration of poverty in cities. Also the development of “parens patriae”‚ which was the government who was legal protector of the juvenile delinquent assumes role of “father.” Not too long after there were a dozen of juvenile institutions that were state supported commonly called reform schools‚ training centers‚
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The Florida Mental Health Act commonly known as “Baker Act.” This policy is found in the Florida Statute 394 and became effective on 1972. The Baker Act Law was name after Maxine Baker a former State representative from Miami whom sponsored the act. The law and treatment of mental illness in the state of Florida dates back to 1874 by government statutes. In 1971the Florida legislature enacted Florida Mental Health Act. This was a comprehensive revision of Florida’s mental health 97-year-old law.
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CULtURAL GENOCIDE RECONSIDERED Robert van Krieken* I Introduction One aspect of the Bringing them Home Report1 that has caused considerable controversy was its appeal to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide2 (‘UNGC’) to characterise the removal of Aboriginal children as state-sponsored genocide.3 This utilisation of the UNGC having been debated in the wake of the Bringing Them Home Report‚ there is now general agreement that it was deeply
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Police discretion by definition is the power to make decisions of policy and practice. Police have the choice to enforce certain laws and how they will be enforced. "Some law is always or almost always enforced‚ some is never or almost never enforced‚ and some is sometimes enforced and sometimes not" (Davis‚ p.1). Similarly with discretion is that the law may not cover every situation a police officer encounters‚ so they must use their discretion wisely. Until 1956‚ people thought of police discretion
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JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM FINAL PAPER FOUNDATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM-CJS/200 April 21‚ 2013 Pilar Atterberry‚ Student Prof.: BRENDA BARNEY INTRODUCTION The rate of juvenile offenders has decreased in some states are since its spike in the early 1990’s. The purpose of the juvenile justice system is to better to preserve the rights of youthful offenders rights‚ so they are not just thrown into the adult jail/prison
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there is now. Children were held to the same standards as adults. No matter the age they were tried and punished alongside adults. Problems such as epilepsy‚ poverty‚ or mental conditions were also seen as crime. Romans also had an idea called parens patriae which allows the state to take custody of the child when the child becomes delinquent‚ abandoned or the parents are unable or unwilling to take care of the child. This caused many families to hid the problem child or send them away so they would
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thereafter‚ many states took on the responsibility of operating the juvenile facilities. In 1899‚ Cook County‚ Illinois established the first juvenile court with the passing of the Juvenile Court Act of 1899. The Act used the British Doctrine of “parens patriae” as the rationale of the state’s right to intervene in the lives of children. The doctrine was interpreted to mean that‚ because children were not of a legal capacity‚ the state had the inherit power and responsibility to provide protection for
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The statutes creating the juvenile court systems and methods of allocating with juvenile delinquency are run by courts as a suitable extension of state police power to warrant the safety and welfare of children in the system. The doctrine of parens patriae allows the state to promulgate for the safeguard‚ care‚ custody‚ and upkeep of children within its jurisdiction. In 1968 the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act was put into effect‚ and in 1972 it was put into revision as the Juvenile
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